A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

Anything is better than stagnation.

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder

No ghosts need

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned.

What is done unto people is also being done unto God

Even having to water flowers is too much constraint.

I wished it was raining, " he said."I don't need the rain, " I said. "I need you.

The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.

It takes a great deal of labor and love to make ice wine. When you have it with dessert, you miss the point of enjoying it on its own.

Woman's inaptitude for reasoning has not prevented her from arriving at truth; nor has man's ability to reason prevented him from floundering in absurdity.

I have nothing against dogs. I just hate rugs that go squish-squish.

The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.