The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent--I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.

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.

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

You're as close to heaven as I'll ever be.

If I had only one friend left, i'd want it to be you.

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

You have to remember: the wife been home all day cleaning asses and feeding faces. Sometimes the opposite.

My audience knows me, and I wear beautiful clothes as a badge of honor. They remember where I came from.

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.