In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned.

Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.

One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.