Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!

All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all!

All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.

The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together!

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

I don't really seem to gravitate to romantic comedies.

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

Remember, whatever we put our attention on expands in our experience, so consider where you are focusing your time and energy.

If you are ready for mystical experiences, you have them.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me.

[sam] Kinison, when he started out, he'd come to Canada when I was first starting, and he'd always [bomb].

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.

Government has become a machine that runs only when gold coins are inserted.

The Gospel is good news not good advice. Advice = what we should do. News = report of what was done for us.