One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Character is that which can do without success.

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.

Whatever you do, you need courage.

Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.