Please your eye and plague your heart.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

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.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

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

Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been from the days of Moses.