We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-nature.

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.