The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly.

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coincide.

One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.

If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.