There is no accounting for human beings.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.