Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.
A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.
Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.
Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out; you will discover that they drink, or steal books, or speak sharply to cats. Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums.
Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk.
Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.
Pastors must welcome the lost sheep. Actually, I made a mistake. I said welcome, rather, go out and find them.
Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
We're trying to get good pictures. Don't worry very much about what I say.
So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.