I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.

People think six is a great many, when it's children. ...they don't mind six pairs of boots, or six pounds of apples, or six oranges, especially in equations, but they seem to think that you ought not to have five brothers and sisters.

I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.

The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.

Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.

Time is but a mode of thought

I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.