“The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.”

Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.

No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.

It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.

There is no book so bad that some good can not be got out of it.

No book so bad but some part may be of use.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.

It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.

The happier the moment the shorter.

Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.

The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.

A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.

On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.