It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

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.

In spite of the surprises and anxieties and responsibilities of living, this was rather a nice world.

It is quite unfortunate that some people hate their lives so much that they have to talk down on others in order to feel good about themselves.

I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.

I resisted being an actor for some time.

It's not fun facing a ball going 97 mph, trust me.

It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it.

In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.

You're the reason why I'll move to the city; you're why I'll need to leave.

Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.

But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance.