A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.

What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.

He who walks alone, waits for no-one.

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

Why the jailer does not leave open his prison doors,--why the judge does not dismiss his case,--why the preacher does not dismisshis congregation! It is because they do not obey the hint God gives them, nor accept the pardon which he freely offers to all.

The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.