We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.

The journalists think that they cannot say too much in favor of such "improvements" in husbandry; it is a safe theme, like piety;but as for the beauty of one of these "model farms," I would as lief see a patent churn and a man turning it. They are, commonly, places merely where somebody is making money, it may be counterfeiting.

We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever, the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero then will know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely; we shall sooner overtake the dawn by remaining here than by hurrying over the hills of the west.

We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.

Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.