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.

There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.