What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households. - Sarah Orne Jewett

I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.

There is all the pleasure that one can have in golddigging in finding one’s hopes satisfied in the riches of a good hill of potatoes.

As for books, she will take to them of her own accord quite soon enough, and in such weather as this I think one day in the fields is worth five in the school-house.