How have all those exquisite adaptations of one part of the organisation to another part, and to the conditions of life, and of one organic being to another being, been perfected?

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

When I was a young subaltern in the South African War, the water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable we had to put a bit of whiskey in it. By diligent effort I learned to like it.

As you grow older, you become - everybody becomes - less inflexible and a little more accommodating.