A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

however long we have to live, there are never enough springs.

It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.

Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.

the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.

Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?

Creativity doesn't flourish in an atmosphere of despotism, coercion and fear.