It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state of existence.

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

In such a government as ours no man is appointed to an office because he is the fittest for it--nor hardly in any other government--because there are so many connections and dependencies to be studied.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.