“You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs”

“Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest”

“I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office”

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated ”

“The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for”

“Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea”