The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four.

Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control.

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

If you thirst you may drink.

The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and garnished with twigs and flowers so as to make it a toy garden or a toy forest. That was the first beauty I ever knew. What the real garden had failed to do, the toy garden did. It made me aware of nature-not, indeed, as a storehouse of forms and colors but as something cool, dewy, fresh, exuberant....As long as I live my imagination of Paradise will retain something of my brother's toy garden.