To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,--the most unwholesome of food.

It is good to have friends at court.

I am Retired Leisure. I am to be met with in trim gardens. I am already come to be known by my vacant face and careless gesture, perambulating at no fixed pace nor with any settled purpose. I walk about; not to and from.

I own that I am disposed to say grace upon twenty other occasions in the course of the day besides my dinner. I want a form for setting out upon a pleasant walk, for a moonlight ramble, for a friendly meeting, or a solved problem. Why have we none for books, these spiritual repasts-a grace before Milton-a grace before Shakespeare-a devotional exercise proper to be said before reading The Fairie Queene?