Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.

When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.