The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless it is true to the worst in life, God knows.

I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.

You cannot write on the heart of another what you do not feel yourself.

Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

Nature always levies her tribute.

The seasons run with swift feet.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

You have to do the planed work the day

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhap-piness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

[T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants--neither alcohol nor meat--are served, that comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood.

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

I'm on a quest to claim absolute victory on every front.

Prepare to win, or lose to someone who is.

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

There is a very long list of parties in this year's election, some of the parties I have never heard of.