In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy'….

People, houses, streets, animals, flowers-everything in Holland looks as if it were washed and ironed each night in order to glisten immaculately and….

Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time c….