You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.- Robert Louis Stevenson
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
You can kill the body but not the spirit.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
Wine is bottled poetry.
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
