People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

In a small cathedral town where changes are few, there are always people who remember who used to live in a particular house, what happened to them there and afterwards, and so on.

When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.

When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive.

There are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and you just let them happen.

The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being too old for them; and between those two clouds, what small and narrow sunlight illumines a human lifetime!

There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.