Poverty - it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

My Aunt Maria asked me to read the life of Dr. Chalmers,which, however, I did not promise to do.Yesterday, Sunday, she was heard through the partitionshouting to my Aunt Jane, who is deaf, 'Think of it!He stood half an hour today to hear the frogs croak,and he wouldn't read the life of Chalmers.'

Life in us is like the water in a river.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour