"Rome was ruined more by neglect of agriculture, and giving no attention to useful trade and commerce, than by the inv…"

"Industry is the vis motrix of husbandry, and therefore an ancient English writer observes, "that a single uncultivate…"

"From the multitude of books published on the subject of cultivating the earth, one would have imagined the art to hav…"

"Harte was excessively vain. He put copies of his book (the History of Gustavus Adolphus) in manuscript into the hands…"

"He was fitter for that (meaning Husbandry) than for heroick history: he did well when he turned his sword into a plou…"

"A "Naturfolk" learns by intimate contact with nature that there is a healing power in the flower and the grass, in th…"

"Chivalry is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than its emblem, the cherry blossom; nor is it a dried-u…"

"A typical samurai calls a literary savant a book-smelling sot. Another compares learning to an ill-smelling vegetable…"

"Death for a cause unworthy of dying for, was called a "dog's death." "To rush into the thick of battle and to be slai…"

"Pilgrimages to all sorts of uncanny places—to execution grounds, to graveyards, to houses reputed to be haunted, were…"