The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.

The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames-These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people's trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.