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

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

the urgent crowds out the essential.

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.

Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is never the whole day, never all our life which is transformed in any happiness, but only the exquisite moments.

... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.