Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain; the exactest vigilance and caution can never maintain a single day of unmingled innocence.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

Example is always more efficacious than precept.