It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot plow quite up to the rails or wall which he himself has placed, and hence it often becomes a hedgerow and sometimes a coppice.

The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

That we have but little faith is not sad, but that we have little faithfulness. By faithfulness faith is earned.

My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.

Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.

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

Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it.