Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.

Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

Science has given to this generation the means of unlimited disaster or of unlimited progress. There will remain the greater task of directing knowledge lastingly towards the purpose of peace and human good.

There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.

The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'