We need so to view the world as to combine an idea of wonder and an idea of welcome.

We need to be happy in this wonderland without once being merely comfortable.

It is _this_ achievement of my creed that I shall chiefly pursue in these pages.
But I have a peculiar reason for mentioning the man in a yacht, who discovered England.

For I am that man in a yacht.

I discovered England.
I do not see how this book can avoid being egotistical; and I do not quite see (to tell the truth) how it can avoid being dull.