Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

Politics make strange bedfellows.

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

Blessed be agriculture! if one does not have too much of it.

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

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.