Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In my mind they are both essential.

Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.

I foresee that the Andersen and Fairy Tale fashion will not last; none of these things away from general nature do.

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

Friendship is the bread of the heart.

I place flowers in the very first rank of simple pleasures; and I have no very good opinion of the hard worldly people who take no delight in them.

Nothing so pretty to look at as my garden!

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

In our present high state of civilization, people are so much alike, that anything at all odd comes on one with the freshness and character of an antique coin among smooth shillings.

Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.

Seldom do we embrace a new idea, especially one of a religious nature.

In the writers mind, even a backstory has a backstory.

It's not just enough to change the president if we want to change America.

Do no harm. Do good. Stay in love with God.

Humans are a part of nature, not apart from nature.

If we consider art as oxygen in our society, we have to deliver this oxygen.

You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

You seek too much information and not enough transformation.

Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it