the urgent crowds out the essential..

children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterab….

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the complet….

Perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or frie….

Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ... For it is never the whol….

The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for..

leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work..

We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving?.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they….

It is always one of the tragedies of any relationship, even between people sensitive to each other's moods, that the moments of emotion so rarely coi….

Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited..

As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a t….

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign..

the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, ….

A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is express….

happiness makes us older, less romantic, less in need of dreams. Discontent, not happiness, is the food of youth and poetry..

when people go away, or when we leave the places we love, or something we treasure goes out of our life - I have always noticed that before it happen….

children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children..

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other….

We envy people we love for being always in their own loved company..

Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures..