A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.

Trips to fairly unknown regions should be made twice; once to make mistakes and once to correct them.

Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain.

My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other. . .

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.

Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully.