Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And then you'll be in as much trouble as I am!

He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting. A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.