Of course I should love to throw a toothbrush into a bag, and just go, quite vaguely, without any plans or even a real destination. It is the Wanderlust.

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.

all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.

There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.

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.