Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.
In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.