Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.

To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?

Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.

A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.

Well, I love geraniums, and anybody who does not love geraniums must obviously be a depraved and loathsome person.

As any psychologist will tell you, the worst thing you can possibly do to a woman is to deprive her of a grievance.

Observe the Lord’s Day as he would have you, and perhaps He will observe your days as you would have Him.

I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're not really thinking.

I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister in the post war years simply because of short term nerves.

The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

Biding time is easy -- and gets you nowhere.

I feel like girls in general will always worry about the same things, and it's all appearance related. That will always be there. When you grow older, you grow more confident with who you are.

No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.

A politician without money for advertising is out of luck. They are not taken seriously.

A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime.

The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.