Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

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

In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity!

What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.

I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it. ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.

the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.

Dignity is an anachronism.