I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody.
The place to observe nature is where you are.
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.
When you bait the hook with your heart, the fish always bite.
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature.
The secret of happiness is something to do.
A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, [occupying] old churches and manor houses, the old Langham Hotel where Sherlock Holmes once met Moriarty and where this correspondent once shared an office with an 8-foot bathtub.