If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

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.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

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.

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.