The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.

A little thought is sexton to all the world.

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold offices under the crown, as the French to a great extent did, but to live in earnest and with freedom.