Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.
A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.