Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.

He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.

It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.