Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.

It sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog's nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months.

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

Loneliness is a strange gift.

I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.

Where I would like to discover facts, I find fancy. Where I would like to learn what I did, I learn only what I was thinking. Theyare loaded with opinion, moral thoughts, quick evaluations, youthful hopes and cares and sorrows. Occasionally, they manage to report something in exquisite honesty and accuracy. That is why I have refrained from burning them.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.