It is so often the odd, the unexpected, the apparently trifling, that stamps itself upon the memory for ever, while much more memorable things pass away like a breath of wind.

Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.

Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.

A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.

Youthful days are longer than those of later years, as we all learn as we grow older.

For your shadow, you are his shadow!

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

I know what it takes to win ball games.

Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.

I treat him [Donald Trump] as an entertainer. I laugh it off. It's like going to the circus and seeing the acrobats and the dancing bears. He's willing to say things that are patently false.

Leaders can be wrong - but they can not be unclear.

If it works, it's true.