My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
The ocean is a body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.