“Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.”
“You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.”
“Scarlett (O'Hara) taught that one could be hungry and despairing, but not broken and not without resources, spiritual in nature, that precluded one from surrendering without a fight”
“And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.”
“The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.”
“There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.”