Give Me, Lord, Neither Poverty Nor Riches.

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 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.

When, From The Top Of Any High Hill, One Looks Round The Country, And Sees The Multitude Of Regularly Distributed Spires, One Not Only Ceases To Wonder That Order And Religion Are Maintained, But One Is Astonished That Any Such Thing As Disaffection Or Irreligion Should Prevail.

I View Tea Drinking As A Destroyer Of Health, An Enfeebler Of The Frame, An En-genderer Of Effeminancy And Laziness, A Debaucher Of Youth And Maker Of Misery For Old Age. Thus He Makes That Miserable Progress Towards That Death Which He Finds Ten Or Fifteen Years Sooner Than He Would Have Found It If He Had Made His Wife Brew Beer Instead Of Making Tea.

I Was A Countryman And A Father Before I Was A Writer On Political Subjects... Born And Bred Up In The Sweet Air Myself, I Was Resolved That My Children Should Be Bred Up In It Too.