Time is the only commodity that matters.
Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.
Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before.
Grandma told me all about it, Told me so I couldn't doubt it, How she danced, my grandma danced; long ago.
Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit, pat, patter, clatter, Sudden sun and clatter patter!. . . All things ready with a will, April's coming up the hill!
Ten years dropped from a man's life are no small loss; ten years of manhood, of household happiness and care; ten years of honest labor, of conscious enjoyment of sunshine and outdoor beauty; ten years of grateful life--one day looking forward to all this; the next, waking to find them passed, and a blank.
[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.
The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together. . . . The general welfare cannot be provided for in any one act, but it is well to remember that the benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.
I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.
They call me Fearless Felix.
Treat other animals as friends and they become friends. Treat other animals as family and they become family. Give other animals your love and they will love you in return.