If we estimate dignity by immediate usefulness, agriculture is undoubtedly the first and noblest science.
The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.
Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.