Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!

In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.