I Was A Veritable Johnny Appleseed Of Grand

“People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of suffering which seemed so inexplicable and unnecessary. He had never been able to understand why men should be unhappy.”

“I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.”

“It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth.”

The superior man is distressed by his want of ability.

“O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!”

“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”