A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis.... I was all asprawl, clinging to Beauty, which is a very restless trellis.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

To achieve style, begin by affecting none.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.