The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.

A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

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

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Only poetry inspires poetry.