there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.

Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.

women love with their imagination and men with their senses.