I am in love with this green Earth.

Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity.

To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

You may derive thoughts from others; your way of thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.

Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.