Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

The Norfolk people are quick and smart in their motions and their speaking. Very neat and trim in all their farming concerns and very skilful. Their land is good, their roads are level, and the bottom of their soil is dry, to be sure; and these are great advantages; but they are diligent and make the most of everything.

He who writes badly thinks badly

Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.

The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour.

Poverty is, except where there is an actual want of food and raiment, a thing much more imaginary than real. The shame of poverty--the shame of being thought poor--it is a great and fatal weakness, though arising in this country, from the fashion of the times themselves.