It is beautiful, beautiful to give; one of the very most beautiful things in life.

if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him.

Keep quiet and say one's prayers-certainly not merely the best, but the only things to do if one would be truly happy; but, ashamed of asking when I have received so much, the only form of prayer I would use would be a form of thanksgiving.

Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.