"What's the matter with being a farmer ?" he asked.
"Well, a farmer doesn't usually amount to much, I mean in the eyes of the world.

Farmers seem to be in a different class from merchants, for example, or from bankers or other more genteel workers." "Listen to me, Dorian Trent." Uncle Zed laid down his book as if he had a serious task before him.

"Let me tell you something.

If you haven't done so before, begin now and thank the Lord that you began life on this globe of ours as a farmer's child and boy.

Whatever you do or become in the future, you have made a good beginning.