A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.

Perhaps fate has a way of turning things around and making something good out of the action of someone who failed humanity without meaning to.

Believing in miraculosity makes it even more available to us.

Thanks God for his blood, and his amazing gift of sending his son. Who has made me strong in Christ Jesus, when heaven and earth pass away, Jesus will be the only thing that remains.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm irony and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

I don't mind playing the same character, but if it's not well done, then I'm not interested.

There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.

Fights problems with bigger problems.

You have robbed me, and everyone here, of their purpose. That's not salvation, that's damnation.

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?