The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.

No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back.

My friends have come to me unsought. The great God gave them to me. By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself,I find them, or rather not I, but the Deity in me and in them derides and cancels the thick walls of the individual character, relation, age, sex, circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.

The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.