It's only quite of late that I have begun to appreciate this, to see all the possibilities that are in myself.

It has taken all this time to outgrow the miserable misdirection of my boyhood, and to become a man of my time.

Thank the fates, I no longer live in the Pentateuch, but at the latter end of the nineteenth century.

Many a lad has to work this deliverance for himself nowadays.

I don't wish to speak unkindly any more, Miriam, but I must tell you plain facts.