The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power to keep her from any such rash or foolhardy enterprise – unless she wished me to accompany her.

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.

We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.

-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.

Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.