But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles.

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.

(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them--the soft singing of the waters, the wisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind--should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not.

Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.