Phil

“A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility.”
― Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“I carry my own troubles with me, and so everywhere I am in the midst of similar discomforts.”
― Basil the Great, The Complete Works of Saint Basil (5 Books): Cross-Linked to the Bible

“but I was afraid of spending the few pence I had, and was even more afraid of the vicious looks of the trampers I had met or overtaken. I sought no shelter, therefore, but the sky; and”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield