On horseback he seemed to require as many hands as a Hindu god, at least four for clutching the reins, and two more for patting the horse soothingly on the neck.

He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

Women and elephants never forget an injury.