“Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.”– Lawrence Durrell Related Quotes “It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”– Robert Louis Stevenson “Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.”– John F. Kennedy “What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.”– Gilbert K. Chesterton