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.

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.

Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.

It is well-known that there are many faces in the world over the finishing of which nature did not take much trouble, did not employ any fine tools such as files, gimlets, and so on, but simply hacked them out with round strokes: one chop-a nose appears; another chop-lips appear; eyes are scooped out with a big drill; and she lets it go into the world rough-hewn, saing: "ALIVE!

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.