Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards.

An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.

The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries, arrested, while the concrete forest of the modern world grows up around her.

Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.