Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life.

And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.

All names will soon be restored to their proper owners.

An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

Things always work according to their nature.