It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

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.

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.