Be kind to people whether they deserve your kindness or not. If your kindness reaches the deserving good for you if your kindness reaches the undeserving take joy in your compassion.

Is there a better method of departure by night than this quiet bon voyage with an open book, the sole companion who has come to see you off, to wave you into the dark waters beyond language?

.....The biggest mystery of nature is nature.

... common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.

I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.

Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day.

I did not think so at first. But the US is so incredibly dependent on oil, that they wanted to secure oil in case competition on the world market becomes too hard.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

Perhaps the spirit of the Everglades was most evident in the unseen, the hidden, the implied.

See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.