As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

The thoughts and opinions of one human being, if they are sincere, must always have an interest for some other human beings. The world is there to think about; and if we have lived, or are living, with any sort of energy, we must have thought about it, and about ourselves in relation to it - thought 'furiously' often. And it is out of the many 'thinkings' of many folk, strong or weak, dull or far-ranging, that thought itself grows.

I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.