I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

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

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

That what cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.

If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!