Have mountains, and waves, and skies, no significance but what we consciously give them, when we employ them as emblems of our thoughts?

The people know that they need in their representative much more than talent, namely, the power to make his talent trusted.

Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the castings of the worm, the plough of the frost.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

Make youself necessary to someone.

The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.