“Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problem of wheat.”

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Through your rags I see your vanity.

If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.

If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.

Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.

The great honor in the world is to be what we pretend to be.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary?

Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.

Farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.

Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.

I want Britain to lead the world in food and farming and to do that we need enough productive agricultural land.

Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.

Forty percent of the United States drains into the Mississippi. It’s agriculture. It’s golf courses. It’s domestic runoff from our lawns and roads. Ultimately, where does it go? Downstream into the gulf.

That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.