Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

I am never less alone than when alone.

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?