I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.

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.

... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

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

But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.

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