Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.

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

He who demands little gets it.

To drink for pleasure may be a distraction, but to drink from misery is always a danger.

Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.