Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

Education should be as broad as man.

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

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.

Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.