"The old men remember the roadsides, the wastes, and commons, and village greens, and patches of no man's land, which …"

"If the salt was dear and scarce, sugar was unknown except to the very rich. The poor man had little to sweeten his lo…"

"The ordinary life of the monastery began at six o'clock in the morning, and when the small bell, called the skilla, r…"

"Even in our country villages we are losing our Individuals. The world is getting quite too much for us—withering us, …"

"The old Cambridge, which some of us knew in our youth, with its solemn ecclesiasticism, its quaint archaisms, its fan…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"