George Borrow
» Life and Living » “There’s night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there’s likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?”
» Literature » “A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.”
» Patriotism » “Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.”
» Politicians and Politics » “I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.”
» Suicide » “If you must commit suicide… always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.”
