If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Celestial wisdom calms the mind.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.