----------------------------------------------------------------------Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.No animal shall wear clothes.No animal shall sleep in a bed.No animal shall drink alcohol.No animal shall kill any other animal.All animals are ...

“But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.”It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate!Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about i...

“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”"Yes, of course, if it's fine tomorrow," said Mrs. Ramsay. "But you'll have to be up with the lark," she added.To her son these words conveyed an extraordin...

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”To Mrs. Saville, England.St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17—.You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such e...

---------------------------------------------------------------Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,I must have you!"—THOMAS PARKE D'INVILLIERS---------------------------------------------------------------In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my...

“She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.”“Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.”“She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.”Selden paused in surprise. In the ...

Alice in Wonderland“And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation?”“In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.”“Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?”The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?”“I don’t know,” Alice answered....

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”A throng of bearded men, in sad-colored garments, and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods and others bareheade...

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slid...

“Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.”“Let him ride a horse. He's a cowboy ain't he?”“Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears. When they finish, they feel better. But to those without hope, whose anguish is basic and permanent, no good comes from crying. Nothing changes for them. They usually know this, but still can’t help crying.”Around quitting time, Tod Hackett heard a great din o...

“Each time you happen to me all over again.”“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”“Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.Though there was already talk of the erection, in ...