I must confess that I never could see any beauty in her. Her face is too thin; her complexion has no brilliancy; and her features are not at all handsome. Her nose wants character; there is nothing marked in its lines. Her teeth are tolerable, but not out of the common way; and as for her eyes, which have sometimes been called so fine, I could never see anything extraordinary in them.

The farmer is the only man in our economy who has to buy everything at retail, sell everything at wholesale, and pay the freight both ways.

The path to discovery is rarely a straight line.