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

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.

I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.

Please your eye and plague your heart.

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.

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

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