Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.
Each age has its choice of the death it will die.
To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.
The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value