An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.

Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?

You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.

-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.