Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.

Every natural action is graceful.

Earth endures; Stars abide.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are competent judges of the best book, and few writers of the best books.

The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

When we attempt to define and describe God, both language and thought desert us, and we are as helpless as fools and savages.