Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism.

My notions of life are much the same as they are about traveling; there is a good deal of amusement on the road; but, after all, one wants to be at rest.

The true one of youth's love, proving a faithful helpmate in those years when the dream of life is over, and we live in its realities.

The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.

Beware of those who are homeless by choice! You have no hold on human being whose affections are without a top-root!

Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!

Thou hast been called, O sleep, the friend of woe, But 'tis the happy that have called thee so.