Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.

What a blessing it is to love books.

Keep quiet and say one's prayers-certainly not merely the best, but the only things to do if one would be truly happy; but, ashamed of asking when I have received so much, the only form of prayer I would use would be a form of thanksgiving.

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone.

I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies.