I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

There can be no fairer ambition than to excel in talk; to be affable, gay, ready, clear, and welcome.

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

...those little people, my brownies, who do one half of my work for me while I am fast asleep, and in all human likelihood do the rest for me as well, when I am wide awake and fondly suppose I do for myself.

The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.