A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.

But why should not the New Englander try new adventures - not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and his orchards - and raise other crops than these? Why concern ourselves so much about our beans for seed, and not be concerned at all about a new generation of men.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

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

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of the bread of life compared with which that is bran. Let a man only taste these loaves, and he becomes a skillful economist at once.