The fireside is the tulip bed of a winter day. Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. The truth will ouch. No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved.
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. Management by objectives works if you first, think through your objectives. Ninety percent of the time you haven't. Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.