No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature.

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.

Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

The spirit of delight comes in small ways.