They are merry and contented at the prospect of a savory meal, and they are fond of playing tricks on each other--both sexes chaff and tease constantly.

I believe that the development of our larger brain is the intellectual work of man during hundreds and thousands of years, and it would gratify me to see it raised to a still greater state of activity." "I am listening to you so quietly that I don't interrupt you--even when you talk absurd nonsense.

How can one look doleful and disagreeable if honest, highly constituted men indulge in conversation with each other for a few hours after hard work?
I delight in this harmless enjoyment, in which people forget all the cares of the day.

Here people shake off the burdens of their vocation and the accidents of their lot.

Here am I, a poor devil enjoying the society of the minister's friends, and admiring the same beautiful eyes as he does." "The harmless enjoyments of which you speak are exactly the signs by which one may recognize the vegetative lives of the savage and the animal.