It Is No Good To Think That

It Is Not For Us To Hold Ourselves Above The Position Of Grateful People. We Have To Be Able To Accept. Anything Else Shows An Unwillingness To Grant Someone Else The Superior Place.

A Leopard Does Not Change His Spots, Or Change His Feeling That Spots Are Rather A Credit.

My Youth Is Escaping Without Giving Me Anything It Owes Me.

Well, Buttermere, This Is A Day That Is Good To Live And Breathe In, That Makes A Man Feel In His Prime. Standing Here In Front Of My House, I Feel As Young As When I Moved Into It Thirty Years Ago, In The Year Eighteen Hundred And Fifty-nine. What Aged Man Would You Take Me To Be, As I Step As It Were Casually Into Your View?

Most Of The Pleasure Of Making A Book Would Go If It Held Nothing To Be Shared By Other People. I Would Write For A Few Dozen People, And Sometimes It Seems That I Do So, But I Would Not Write For No-one.