The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.

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.

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

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.