"Habit is, as it were, a second..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.”

“Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.”

“Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.”

“Use almost can change the stamp of nature.”

“One cat just leads to another.”

“Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.”

“The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward. [...] The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain.”

“We could not help being struck by the seeming, though innocent, indifference of Nature to these men's necessities, while elsewhereshe was equally serving others. Like a true benefactress, the secret of her service is unchangeableness. Thus is the busiest merchant, though within sight of his Lowell, put to pilgrim's shifts, and soon comes to staff and scrip and scallop-shell.”

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”