It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.
Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
It is useless to send armies against ideas.
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.