We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

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

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.

Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

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.