Happy The Man Who Lives

Sensible Fathers And Mothers, When Their Children Marry, Go Back To The Old Days And Renew Their Youth.

One Was Born A Certain Sort Of Person, And Though By Ceasless Struggle One Might Become As Nice As That Sort Of Person Ever Is, One Could Never Become As Nice As A Nicer Sort Of Person.

In Times Of Storm And Tempest, Of Indecision And Desolation, A Book Already Known And Loved Makes Better Reading Than Something New And Untried ... Nothing Is So Warming And Companionable.

...the Simple Little Words Came Easily, Fitting Themselves To The Tune That Had Come Out Of The Harpsichord. It Didn't Seem To Her That She Made Them Up At All. It Seemed To Her That They Flew In From The Rose-garden, Through The Open Window, Like A Lot Of Butterflies, Poised Themselves On The Point Of Her Pen, And Fell Off It On To The Paper.

[salvation] Is A Curious Process Of Divine Burglary. The First Thing To Be Wrested From One By A God Who Said 'thou Shalt Not Steal' Is One's Good Opinion Of One's Self.