People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.