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

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

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.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.

The joy which is caused by truth and noble thoughts shows itself in the words by which they are expressed.