Men have become the tools of their tools.
Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.