A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.

Affectation is the product of falsehood.

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.