“In a society so estranged from animals as ours, we often fail to credit them with any form of language. If we do, it comes under the heading of communication rather than speech. And yet, the great ...”

“And there, next to me, as the east wind blows in early fall, a season open to great migrations, are those lives, threading the air and waters of the sea, that come out of an incomparable darkness, ...”

“I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.”

“True luck consists not in holding the best cards at the table luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home.”

“Friends are the sunshine of life.”

“The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”