Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible of any other government than that of force, a conclusion not founded in truth nor experience.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country

Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.