Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

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

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.

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

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it.

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own.

Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.