Australia is so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.

My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.

Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Some people's hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.

Pain is a part of life. I hated that fact. I would be much happier without it but then it wouldn't be my life.

How could we have discovered great lands, if we dare not travel?

Marry on Monday for health, Tuesday for wealth, Wednesday the best day of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, and Saturday for no luck at all.

When your mind is still and undisturbed by stimulation, the true nature naturally shines out and you can directly see what you really are.

All men of action are dreamers.

[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

When you spar in boxing, the only thing that gets hurt is your brain. Everything else feels pretty good.

...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, Land lies there.

I used to be really snobby about music. I'm not as snobby as I used to be, though. I have this great bit about not getting mad about music anymore. It just happens when you get older.