The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed.

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.

Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk.

It's not the sort of night for bed, anyhow.