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.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.

When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are.

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.