Every man's nature is a sufficient advertisement to him of the character of his fellows.

When the night is darkest, the stars come out.

All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.

Our young people are diseased with the theological problems of original sin, origin of evil, predestination, and the like. These never presented a practical difficulty to any man,--never darkened across any man's road, who did not go out of his way to seek them. These are the soul's mumps, and measles, and whooping- coughs, and those who have not caught them cannot describe their health or prescribe a cure. A simple mind will not know these enemies.

The glory of the farmer is that, in the division of labors, it is his part to create. All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be.

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

Every man is as lazy as he dares to be.