Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

Have the courage of your desire.

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self compassion.

I hate and fear 'science' because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the remorseless enemy of mankind. I see it destroying all simplicity and gentleness of life, all the beauty of the world; I see it restoring barbarism under a mask of civilization; I see it darkening men's minds and hardening their hearts.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .