A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.

The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.

I am the cat that walks alone.

The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters