We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.

We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company.

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

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.

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

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

happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry.