We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.

When twilight dews are falling soft Upon the rosy sea, love, I watch the star whose beam so oft Has lighted me to thee, love.

I am in love with the green earth.

Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite ready, who would think of taking up the Faerie Queen for a stopgap, or a volume of Bishop Andrews's Sermons?

He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

I could never hate anyone I knew.

Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.