Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

The past is the father of the present.

Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.

You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.

Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has.