On their way to freedom, some people find riches, some people find death.

I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.

Like father like son, like mother like daughter!

Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best night cap.

Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at the moment you engage them in the reality of the borders they cultivate, the space in the garden they occupy at any moment, they like in particular this, or they like in particular that.

I like cooking, but I think someone else ought to do the dishes.

A tourist is an ugly human being.