The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.
E. B. WhiteThe only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
E. B. WhiteA writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.
E. B. WhiteHalf a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
E. B. WhiteNew York is part of the natural world. I love the city, I love the country, and for the same reasons. The city is part of the country. When I had an apartment on East Forty-Eighth Street, my backyard during the migratory season yielded more birds than I ever saw in Maine.
E. B. WhiteWalden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his life, and this is mine. It is not the best book I ever encountered, perhaps, but it is for me the handiest, and I keep it about me in much the same way one carries a handkerchief - for relief in moments of defluxion or despair.
E. B. White