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

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.

Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before; Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine!

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.

Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.

Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.