It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.

Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

. . . I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. . . .

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, that gives birth to imagination...without nature-awakened imagination most persons do not really live in the world, they merely pass through it as they live dull lives of quiet desperation.