When a person dies who does any one thing better than anyone else in the world, which so many others are trying to do well, it leaves a gap in society.

There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

No young man believes he shall ever die

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? To die is only to be as we were before we were born.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world