My Youth Is Escaping Without

The Plot Is Not Very Important To Me, Though A Novel Must Have One, Of Course. It's Just A Line To Hang The Washing On.

A Plot Is Like The Bones Of A Person, Not Interesting Like Expression, Or Signs Of Experience, But The Support Of The Whole.

Real Charity And Real Ability Never To Condemn-the One Real Virtue-is So Often The Result Of A Waking Experience That Gives A Glimpse Of What Lies Beneath Things.

Well, Buttermere, This Is A Day That Is Good To Live And Breathe In, That Makes A Man Feel In His Prime. Standing Here In Front Of My House, I Feel As Young As When I Moved Into It Thirty Years Ago, In The Year Eighteen Hundred And Fifty-nine. What Aged Man Would You Take Me To Be, As I Step As It Were Casually Into Your View?

I Wonder The Human Race Has Been So Fond Of Migrations, When The Young Take So Hardly To Traveling.