“Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.”
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There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.