Nothing can be believed but what one sees, or has from an eye witness.

Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

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

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.