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

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.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.

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

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.