Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.

No matter how widely you have travelled, you haven't seen the world if you have failed to look into the human hearts that inhabit it.

Time is not money; time is an opportunity to live before you die. So a man who walks, and lives and sees and thinks as he walks, has lengthened his life.

What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place.

After all, time is not money. It is an opportunity to live before you die.

All the great naturalists have been habitual walkers, for no laboratory, no book, car, train or plane takes the place of honest footwork for this calling, be it amateur's or professional's.

A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.

Childlike does not mean shallow.

It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation.

Of all mad matches never was the likeBeing mad herself, she’s madly mated.

It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Fame is a big joke. Stars need to stop taking themselves so seriously.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

I wear black all the time.

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where it is.