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?

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 wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

some people always have a touch of youth about them.