He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.

Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.

We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.