There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.

A good death does honour to a whole life.

And tears are heard within the harp I touch.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.