The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

He might wish and wish and never get it - the beauty and the loving in the world!

Life calls the tune, we dance.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

It is by muteness that a dog becomes for one so utterly beyond value; with him one is at peace, where words play no torturing tricks.Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.

the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

Only love makes fruitful the soul. The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice, to dislike the clothes and voices of other men - all this was precious to her beyond everything.