Dr Parr...asked him, how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate? Lamb replied, 'I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.'
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
Our spirits grow gray before our hairs.
We encourage one another in mediocrity.
Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,- One minute of heaven is worth them all.