They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.
We drink one another's health and spoil our own.
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
Love is like the measles we all have to go through it.
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.
Ah, those foolish days, those foolish days when we were unselfish and pure-minded; those foolish days when our simple hearts were full of truth, and faith, and reverence! Ah, those foolish days of nob...
Idleness like kisses to be sweet must be stolen.
(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them--the soft singing of the waters,...
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
I want a house that has got over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
Are we labouring at some Work too vast for us to perceive? Are our passions and desires mere whips and traces by the help of which we are driven? Any theory seems more hopeful than the thought that al...
What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over
People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
And yet it seems so full of comfort and of strength, the night. In its great presence, our small sorrows creep away, ashamed. The day has been so full of fret and care, and our hearts have been so ful...
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.