How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him who did not know that he should never die: that what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever!

Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.

It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.