When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.