Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would become blind.

Is love the sweetness of flowers?

People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.

The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it, then it is dangerous to propagate a pessimistic philosophy.

Usually they are quick to discover that I cannot see or hear.... It is not training but love which impels them to break their silence about me with the thud of a tail rippling against my chair on gambols round the study, or news conveyed by expressive ear, nose, and paw. Often I yearn to give them speech, their motions are so eloquent with things they cannot say.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.