We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.

You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.

Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.

Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.

People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.

There are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.

There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.