Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.

Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--

they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!

It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.