Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.
The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .
To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.
The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.
Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.
Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.