I am in perfect health, and hear it said I look better than ever I did in my life, which is one of those lies one is always glad to hear.

Life is too short for a long story

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

As I approach a second childhood, I endeavor to enter into the pleasures of it.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

My health is so often impaired that I begin to be as weary of it as mending old lace; when it is patched in one place, it breaks out in another.

It has all been most interesting.