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"It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained."
"As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies."
"The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others."
"The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements."
"The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs."
"Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber."
"The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees."
"On a farm the best fertilizer is the master's eye."
"The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth."
"We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off."
"Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things."
"The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys orders, remembers duties that it has been taught, is pleased by affection and by marks of honour, nay more it possesses virtues rare even in man, honesty, wisdom, justice, also respect for the stars and reverence for the sun and moon."
"There is alas no law against incompetency; no striking example is made. They learn by our bodily jeopardy and make experiments until the death of the patients, and the doctor is the only person not punished for murder."
"I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness."
"The only certainty is uncertainty"
"Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences."
"The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it."
"In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)"
"It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man."
"The brain is the citadel of sense perception."