First Sentence

"Cricketers on village greens, haymakers in the evening sunshine, small boats that sail before the wind-all these create in me the illusion of Happiness, as if a land of cloudless pleasure, a piece of the old Golden World, were hidden, not (as poets have imagined), in far seas or beyond inaccessible mountains, but here close at hand, if one could find it, in some undiscovered valley."