Make youself necessary to someone.

In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.