“Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand
“Agriculture for an honorable and high-minded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living
“A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
“I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy
“Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind