the world has been fair cruel if you've never known the love of a dog!

On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old.

Before, you think of it as a permanent bond of happiness; later, you see that it is a yoke, borne unequally. You marry to keep love, but sometimes that is the surest way to lose it.

Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.

... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.

The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.