Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.
I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.