As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my work coarsely and not too well, ay, not well enough. When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct.

We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

I don't like the city better, the more I see it, but worse. I am ashamed of my eyes that behold it. It is a thousand times meanerthan I could have imagined.... The pigs in the street are the most respectable part of the population.

Things do not change; we change.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.