Those Things That Are Dearest To Us

We Find Our Energies Are Actually Cramped When We Are Overanxious To Succeed.

When I Play With My Cat, Who Knows Whether I Do Not Make Her More Sport Than She Makes Me?

It Is In Vain That We Get Upon Stilts, For Once On Them, It Is Still With Our Legs That We Must Walk. And On The Highest Throne In The World We Are Still Sitting On Our Own Ass.

As For Me, Then, I Love Life And Cultivate It Just As God Has Been Pleased To Grant It To Us.

It Is No Hard Matter To Get Children; But After They Are Born, Then Begins The Trouble, Solicitude, And Care Rightly To Train, Principle, And Bring Them Up.