Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

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

If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial.

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.

But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.

Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.