The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

A farm is a good thing, when it begins and ends with itself, and does not need a salary, or a shop, to eke it out.

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.