"Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art." (Last words, according to Dickens's obituary in <i>The … - Charles Dickens

That's the state to live and die in!...R-r-rich!

I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.