RUSSELL, Lord John Quotes
(1792-1878), English statesman
In a moral point of view, the life of the agriculturist is the most pure and holy of any class of men; pure, because it is the most healthful, and vice can hardly find time to contaminate it; and holy, because it brings the Deity perpetually before his view, giving him thereby the most exalted notions of supreme power, and the most endearing view of the divine benignity.
O, how many deeds of deathless virtue and immortal crime the world had wanted had the actor said, "I will do this tomorrow!"
The wisdom of many, and the wit of one.
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