To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.

A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

To set but a low value upon toast is to expose one's deficiencies in right appreciation.

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.

What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.