If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
Karel CapekThe English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.
Karel CapekWherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
Karel CapekI find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He is a creature who digs himself into the earth and leaves the sight of what is on it to us gaping good-for-nothings. He lives buried in the ground. He builds his monument in a heap of compost. If he came into the Garden of Eden, he would sniff excitedly and say: "Good Lord, what humus!"
Karel Capek