No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property. – Charles Dudley Warner
If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Natures part that she did not mean him to be a head worker. – Thomas Huxley
Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. – William Hazlitt