Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

A fallow field is a sin.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.