leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

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.

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.

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.

Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.