Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

Quote: a vignette of life’s treasures wrapped by letters that sing a song

Tombstones don´t list jobs, they list relationships-mother, wife, daughter.

Life is whatever you make it, a heaven or hell on earth.

It's impossible to talk without labels. "Dog" is a label, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless, nor does it mean there's no difference in a Shih Tzu and a Doberman.

Learning of all kinds goes on best, lasts best, and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out of a real focus of interest in the learner.

When two people are at one in their inmost hearts, they shatter even the strength of iron or bronze.

He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there.

We are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet.

You live up - or down - to your expectations.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.