Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently a…

- Esther Meynell

Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.

- Esther Meynell

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.

- Esther Meynell

It is so often the odd, the unexpected, the apparently trifling, that stamps itself upon the memory for ever, while much more memorable things pass a…

- Esther Meynell

Youthful days are longer than those of later years, as we all learn as we grow older.

- Esther Meynell

Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.

- Esther Meynell

It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.

- Esther Meynell

There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.

- Esther Meynell

A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.

- Esther Meynell