A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

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.

I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.

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

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.

Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming.