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

But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever and brave and loving, and they have fairy blood in them. It’s a grand thing to have a hare for a friend.

There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' -- not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.

Marriage is a very long process.

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

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

autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.