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

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

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.

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

the urgent crowds out the essential.

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

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