Any sincere thought is irresistible.

You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

When my legs begin to move, the thoughts begin to flow.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

The mode of clearing and planting is to fell the trees, and burn once what will burn, then cut them up into suitable lengths, rollinto heaps, and burn again; then, with a hoe, plant potatoes where you can come at the ground between the stumps and charred logs; for a first crop the ashes suffice for manure, and no hoeing being necessary the first year. In the fall, cut, roll, and burn again, and so on, till the land is cleared; and soon it is ready for grain, and to be laid down.

There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon.