By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.

The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers.

Webster never goes behind government, and so cannot speak with authority about it. His words are wisdom to those legislators who contemplate no essential reform in the existing government; but for thinkers, and those who legislate for all time, he never once glances at the subject.... Comparatively, he is always strong, original, and, above all, practical. Still, his quality is not wisdom, but prudence.

In my walks I would fain return to my senses.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.