Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly.

every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.