I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my hand, of my free and willing return, without persuasion or force by any one or more of them.

I think this land may bee profitable to those that will adventure it.

A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.

Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.

There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk.

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things.

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.

Secrets had the power to kill a marriage, she said. Nonsense, Sylvie said, it was secrets that could save a marriage.

Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

the best compliment to a mother is to appreciate her little one.

Inner beauty is for amateurs.

The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids.

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source.

I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.

I have to say, I'm not someone who's really big into my family history - never really was very curious about it. The only thing I know about it is what I picked up from my aunts and parents.

You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.