Three Men in a Boat

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“1 lb. beefsteak, with 1 pt. bitter beer every 6 hours 1 ten-mile walk every morning 1 bed at 11 sharp every night — 80

Throw the lumber over, man!  Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. — 340

Will it be the same in the future?  Will the prized treasures of to-day always be the cheap trifles of the day before?  Will rows of our willow-pattern dinner-plates be ranged above the chimneypieces of the great in the years 2000 and odd? — 754

It is like the sunset and the stars: we are not awed by their loveliness because they are common to our eyes. — 764