A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

To be sorry and glad together is to be perceptive to the richness of life.

cowardice more than any other failing demands a ruthless paying of the price from those who give it hospitality.

I've never been one for religion, but yet I've never been what ye could call an unbeliever. What I say is, nothin' don't seem impossible once you've clapped eyes on a whale.

to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.

If you lose your reason, you lose it into the hands of God....It's the only place where anything is safe. And when you're dead it's only what's there you'll have. Nothing else.

Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.