A garden has this advantage, that it makes it indifferent where you live. A well-laid garden makes the face of the country of no account; let that be low or high, grand or mean, you have made a beautiful abode worthy of man.

Fate is unpenetrated causes.

Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.

The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

Teaching is the perpetual end and office of all things. Teaching, instruction is the main design that shines through the sky and earth.