By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.

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

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness.

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.