It is the fashion to talk of our changing climate and bewail the hot summers and hard winters of tradition, but how seldom we pause to marvel at the remarkable constancy of the weather from year to year.

Unlike most great talkers, the rooks are good workers, too.

happiness depends more upon the state of mind - and body, perhaps - than upon circumstances and events.

Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine.

A liar did ought to have a good memory.

It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.

You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.