Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.

The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.

Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.

However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some - not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them.