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

"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."

"I was now in my sixteenth year, and for the first time it occurred to me that, although conversant with most of the m…"

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