Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer thought in bean leaves and blossoms rather than in wormwood and piper and millet grass, making the earth say beans instead of grass, - this was my daily work.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

New earths, new themes expect us.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.

A lady once offered me a mat, but as I had no room to spare within the house, nor time to spare within or without to shake it, I declined it, preferring to wipe my feet on the sod before my door. It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.