You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.

People make one happy, not houses.

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.

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.

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

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.