You can't have the family farm without the family.

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

Be careful how you suggest things to me. For there is in me a madness which goes beyond martyrdom, the madness of an utterly idle man.