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?

Never is a long word.

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.

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.

Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.