The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.