The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.

To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse.

It is utterly forbidden to be half-hearted about gardening. You have got to love your garden whether you like it or not.

For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught.

Do not on any account attempt to write on both sides of the paper at once.

History is not what you think. It is what you can remember.

When setting out on a photographic holiday, always provide yourself with two cameras, one to leave in the train going and the other to leave in the cab coming back.

"I want to be a lawn." Greta Garbo.

What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.

Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications.

It may be bizarre but in my opinion science offers a sure path to God and religion.

Fire, even if put on head, burns only.

Have you ever known anyone who was happy? And was still in his right mind, I mean.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

You worry too much about what goes into your mouth and not enough about what comes out of it.

Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

By “empathy,” some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster.