“Agriculture for an honorable and high-minded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living
“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
“Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction
“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create