"Drive away what springs from nature; it returns at a gallop."

“What is the good of life if its chief element, and that which must always be its chief element, is odious? No, the only true economy is to arrange so that your daily labor shall be itself a joy.”

Source : Edward Carpenter (1905). “Prisons, Police and Punishment: An Inquiry Into the Causes and Treatment of Crime and Criminals”

“If we make the tough decisions now, we will be one year ahead of 80 percent of the states in the race to economic growth. If we fail to act, we will fall even further behind... by going first, we can become first.”

“Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.”

“I think it's what fiction is for: to illuminate that gap between our secret selves and our more visible and apparent ones.”

“Tennis is interesting because the women are almost more popular than the men. In the U.S. Open, women even get exactly the same money as the men.”

“If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.”

“Women are all alike-- aye fussin' over their fal-lals and bedazin' a man's eyes, when all they really want is man's blood and his heart out of his body and his soul and his pride....”

“The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.”

Source : Elizabeth Arnim, Elizabeth Von Arnim (2005). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.219, Cosimo, Inc.