"A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones."

"The past is never truly dead; it lives on in the present."

"How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!"

"I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner."

"We are all connected, in ways we do not understand."