Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

This was the shocking thing; that the slime of the pit seemed to utter cries and voices; that the amorphous dust gesticulated and sinned; that what was dead, and had no shape, should usurp the offices of life. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

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