A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.

Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.

Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

Nature is no sentimentalist, - does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman; but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The cold, inconsiderate of persons, tingles your blood, benumbs your feet, freezes a man like an apple. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons.

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere