If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.