Am I no a bonny fighter?

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

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

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.