“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.”