The banker, the broker, even the merchant, lives in a series of whirlwinds, or seems to be pursuing a mirage or groping his way through a fog.

The farmer, although he be not beyond the range of accident, deals more continually with causes which regularly produce certain effects.

He knows a rainbow by sight and does not waste his time and money in chasing it.
No better idea of Washington's activity as a planter can be had than from his brief and terse journals as an agriculturist.

He sets down day by day what he did and what his slaves and the free employees did on all parts of his estate.

We see him as a regular and punctual man.
He had a moral repugnance to idleness.