“Agriculture for an honorable and high-minded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living”

“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.”

“A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.”

“It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.”

“Courage considered in itself or without reference to its causes, is no virtue, and deserves no esteem”

“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to the tremendous difficulties”