A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

I shall laugh my bitter laugh.

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.

For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.