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.

Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached

But the walls of my resolvemortared with stubbornnesshave been breached by circumstancesI cannot handle alone.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

When we perceive aliens as a joke to be laughed at, they feel so pity for us on the success of their plans.

I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day

Money is a guarantee that we may have what we want in the future. Though we need nothing at the moment it insures the possibility of satisfying a new desire when it arises.

Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself.

Fear is a negative thought in your mind. Supplant it with a constructive thought. Fear has killed millions. Confidence is greater than fear. Nothing is more powerful than faith in God and the good.

The sad thing is many people learn how to manage money after they've made a lot of financial mistakes, some that take decades to fix.