Of course, sodium is a vital constituent of the human body. Our tissues swim in a salty sea The more salt in that sea, the more water is needed to dilute it, to maintain the proper concentration of sodium.

Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

And books! ...she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into unworthy hands; and she would have every book that tells her how to admire an old twisted tree.

I am sure Lady Russell would like him. He is just Lady Russell's sort. Give him a book, and he will read all day long.'
'Yes, that he will!' exclaimed Mary tauntingly. 'He will sit poring over his book, and not know when a person speaks to him, or when one
drops ones' scissors, or anything that happens.