Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.
children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.
We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.
We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.