Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils

It is glorious fun racing down the Hump, but you can't do it on windy days because then you are not there, but the fallen leaves do it instead of you. There is almost nothing that has such a keen sense of fun as a fallen leaf.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.