It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception.
With what infinite & unwearied expectation and proclamations the cocks usher in every dawn, as if there had never been one before.
Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.
The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.
The silence rings—it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible—I hear the unspeakable.
I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.
The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering from want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.
