For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues.

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.

Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So muchfate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.

We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to year. But when the boy grows to a man, and is master of the house, he pulls down that wall and builds it new and bigger.