The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

A laugh a day does you more good than an apple – read a humours book ...

Let's make our own way, ' says the Mother, 'and not in this boat.

Maybe you should take some lessons from the forest crooner, ' he suggests.

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.

Americans are in the habit of never walking if they can ride.

To dream costs nothing.

A false vision was better than none.

The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.

How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.