“…beneath this crust, hundreds of fathoms down, there teems a world of checkered life in all its changing forms, a world of the same composition as ours, with the same instincts, the same sorrows, and also, no doubt, the same joys; everywhere the same struggle for existence. So it ever is. If we pene…”— Fridtjof Nansen, amazon.com
“I wish I was as tough as I want you to think that I am.”— William Chapman, williamchapmanwritings.tumblr.com
“It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.com