Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason.

Home is the best place to be sick in.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

... Love never forgets; or if it does, it is an imperfect love, like the beautiful love of a dog, faithful and unreasoning.

Of all the bitter and heavy things in this sorry old world, the not being necessary is the bitterest and heaviest.

Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.

Twenty-five years ago, Christmas was not the burden that it is now; there was less haggling and weighing, less quid pro quo, less fatigue of body, less weariness of soul; and, most of all, there was less loading up with trash.