“Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.”

“Perhaps it makes sense that a creature that doesn't get ill and has few enemies among its neighbors would also live agelessly and die without explanation or cause--would simply vanish without a trace.”

“Women are hard to keep track of, most of them. They slip into other names, and sink without a trace.”

“One who sees inaction in action and action in inaction- he is a wise man.”

“But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.”

“for it is often to be observed of the shallower men, that they are the very last to despond. It is the glory of the bladder that nothing can sink it; it is the reproach of a box of treasure, that once overboard it must drown”