Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.