If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.

I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then, moved by a delicate affection, come and pull at my coat and sleeve until he could touch my face with his nose, and then go away contented.

The chief effect of talk on any subject is to strengthen one's own opinions, and, in fact, one never knows exactly what he does believe until he is warmed into conviction by the heat of attack and defence.

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.