Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet.

No matter how tired or wretched I am, a pussycat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind.

Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it.

Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors.

sometimes duties act on the soul like weeds on a flower. They crowd it out.

The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied.

When a man or a woman holds fast to youth, even if successfully, there is something of the pitiful and the tragic involved. It is the everlasting struggle of the soul to retain the joy of earth, whose fleeing distinguishes it from heaven, and whose retention is not accomplished without an inner knowledge of its futility.