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.

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

Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.

It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.