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!

What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.

WE begin to die not in our sense or extremities, but in our divine faculties.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory.

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.