I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man; help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day. Bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.