The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.

How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.

It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.