Planting is one of my great amusements, and even of those things which can only be for posterity, for a Septuagenary has no right to count on any thing but annuals.

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

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.

People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.