It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.

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?

We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces.

Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.

charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.