"The proprietor should always direct his attention to obtain from his land a gradual increase of produce, or to augmen…"

"The true yield of business is determined less by the size of the estate than by the sum of the investment."

"My father was a cool-tempered and unaffected man. Everyone who came in contact with him knew his straightforward way …"

"My mother, as much as I can remember from my early boyhood, and from what I heard of her after her death, was of a mo…"

"I was very sickly and weak during the first years of my infancy, and was, as much as I can remember of myself, a very…"

"My father sent me, the same year, to school, but here I was not in my sphere; I hated the low and vulgar conduct of m…"

"The religious instruction I received of the Lutheran pastor Bode, preparatory to my confirmation, produced no effect …"

"I continued for some time longer to ramble with Strauss and other school-fellows, to visit coffee-houses and billiard…"

"An agricultural enterprise requires: 1st, a suitable person; 2nd, capital; 3rd, an estate."

"Agriculture is a trade with the purpose... to produce profit or to gain money. The higher this benefit in the long ru…"