Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel the cold in the extremities; if we… - Henry David Thoreau

In a journal it is important in a few words to describe the weather, or character of the day, as if affects our feelings. That which was so important at the time cannot be unimportant to remember.

It is well to find your employment and amusement in simple and homely things. These wear best and yield most.

I would say to the readers of the Scriptures, if they wish for a.. good book, read the Bhagavad-Gita .... translated by Charles Wilkins. It deserves to be read with reverence even by yankees .... \" Besides the Bhagvat-Geeta, our Shakespeare seems sometimes youthfully green ... Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light it is destined to derive thence.\"