Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.