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.

The smallness of our desires may contribute reasonably to our wealth.

To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.

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

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.