"This is brave Bear-Garden language!"

"By reading a man does as it were antedate his life, and makes himself contemporary with the ages past. And this way o…"

"A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much over-charges nature,…"

"People's opinions of themselves are commonly legible in their countenances."

"Envy […], like a cold poison, […] benumbs and stupefies. And thus conscious as it were of its own impotence, it folds…"

"To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried by despondency,…"

"Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom."

"A brave mind is always impregnable. True courage is the result of reasoning."

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"