All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well.

When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.