Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.

Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.

Mankind must live in a harmony with one another in order to have a peaceful world.

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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

One becomes a gardener by becoming a gardener.

The spirit of Hitler is not dead.

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.