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

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

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.

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

After hooking up the fuel line and pumping a little gasoline through the hose, I prepared for a workout on the 'coach's ergometer'.

Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.

As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.

The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.

The world is no nursery.

The Spirit does not lead you to pray for useless goals.