Kenneth Grahame

“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”

“The clever men at Oxford know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much as ignorant Mr. Toad.”

“Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wide World. And that's something that doesn't matter, either to you or me.”

“Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!”

“After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.”

“Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!”

“Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one way.”

“Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit.”

“Finest house on the whole river. Or anywhere else, for that matter.”

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.”

“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”

“But you can't smell a landscape, with a car, you see! And you can't see a landscape, with a car, either!”

“A stoat can do anything. And I can do anything a stoat can.”

“The world has held great Heroes, As history-books have showed; But never a name to go down to fame Compared with that of Toad!”