A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.

Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.

I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods.