The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

Live, let live, and help live

It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me.