“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.”

“Make all good men your well-wishers and then in the years' steady sifting some of them will turn into friends.”

“Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.”

“If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me.”

“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”

“Jealousy often turns people into irresponsible storytellers.”

“Gossip is the sound of jealously.”