Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.
I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.
Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.