"Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind."

“To me, it’s encounters that matter, pictures are much less important.”

“Like families, competitors can bring out the worst as well as the best in each other. Like romance, competition has many faces, some of them ugly. In addition to showing me my grace and graciousness, the mirror of sports has reflected back to me my jealousy, pettiness, and arrogance.”

“A clock only turns one direction”

Source : Nancy E. Turner (2010). “Sarah's Quilt: A Novel of Sarah Agnes Prine and the Arizona Territories, 1906”, p.370, Macmillan

“We should never judge a day by its weather.”

“But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried off its surface by the cloth, for we have run to fat, and wrinkles encircle the eyes and notch the neck where the skin wattles, and the flesh of the arms hangs loose like an overlarge sleeve, veins thicken like ropes and empurple the body as though they had been drawn there by a pen, freckles darken, liver spots appear, the hairah, the hair is exhausted and gray and lusterless, in weary rolls like cornered lint.”

“I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…”

“Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

Source : Thomas Hughes (2017). “True Manliness”, p.33, Litres

“I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.”