If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

You shall not come nearer a man by getting into his house.

God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families.

I see my trees repair their boughs.