One is best in one's own country. - Willa Cather

I do not see you as you really are, Joseph; I see you through my affection for you.

The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.

Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.