If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again.
I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

