“The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pre...”

“No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken,Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.”

“Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.”

“What is reading but silent conversation.”

“When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.”

“Cats ask plainly for what they want.”

“I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only ...”

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”

“Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”