“It’s not much of a tail, but I’m sort of attached to it.”

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.

A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.

Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.

She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die. Still you wait and will not try – A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.

The best way to write poetry, letting things come.

To seem natural rather than to be natural.

War is something of man’s own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

Walking with her man, Lost in a dream

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.

It gets you nowhere if the other person’s tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

I am so attached to the past I could be an antique stone.

Attachment of anything is the distraction of everything.

You came at a time when love and attachment were synonymous to me. But oh how things have changed.

With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.

Garages, barns, and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.

A man attaches himself to woman — not to enjoy her, but to enjoy himself.

The vine of pedant theory is attached at both ends to the pillars of observed subject-matter.

He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.