Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.

Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing the words.)

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.