Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.

Just always be waiting for me.

I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had been given to life. The glory of existence became a thing to speak of. Men who had hitherto only concerned themselves with the narrow things of home put a pipe into their mouths and became philosophers.

On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.