An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed. - Samuel Butler

Animals and plants cannot understand our business, so we have denied that they can understand their own. What we call inorganic matter cannot understand the animals' and plants' business, we have therefore denied that it can understand anything whatever.

The mere fact that a thought or idea can be expressed articulately in words involves that it is still open to question; and the mere fact that a difficulty can be definitely conceived involves that it is open to solution.

To me it seems that those who are happy in this world are better and more lovable people than those who are not.