Semplicità è fare il viaggio di questa vita con solo il bagaglio necessario. - Charles Dudley Warner

Can it be that there is anything of more consequence in life than the great business in hand, which absorbs the vitality and genius of this age? Surely, we say, it is better to go by steam than to go afoot, because we reach our destination sooner — getting there quickly being a supreme object. It is well to force the soil to yield a hundred-fold, to congregate men in masses so that all their energies shall be taxed to bring food to themselves, to stimulate industries, drag coal and metal

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it.