Education should be as broad as man.

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think!

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means

If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what was uppermost in their own minds, after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.

Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.