Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have puzzled me not a little, had it not been for the model with which you accompanied it, of Doctor Rush's answer to a similar inquiry. I live so much like other people, that I might refer to ordinary life as a history of my own. Like my friend the Doctor, I have lived temperately, eating very little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principle diet.

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.