Commonplace Book

'"...It is the most difficult thing in the world to say what one likes best until one is forty or thereabouts. All one's youth - which, I take it, extends to about forty - is passed experimentally in determining what one likes best, and one does not know till it is crystallized. By then also it is probably unattainable."'

from Scarlet and Hyssop by EF Benson (Chapter VIII)

Commonplace Book

'...one of the biggest, and perhaps the best effects of age is to give one tolerance, to make one realize that it takes all sorts to make a world.'

from Scarlet and Hyssop by EF Benson (Chapter II)