Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

My hours are peaceful centuries.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

All my hurts my garden spade can heal.

Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts; but, being in its nature conventional, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.