Scenery is fine - but human nature is finer.
Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
My chest of books divide amongst my friends.
His religion at best is an anxious wish,-like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done.