"Difficulty is a severe instructor, always at our elbow."

"The means of procuring happiness are always in our power."

"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."

"A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman."

"Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are s…"