The Essence of Compassion

“Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong…because sometime in your life you will have been all of these.”

How One Should Be Loved

“I would like, to begin with, to say that though parents, husbands, children, lovers and friends are all very well, they are not dogs.

In my day and turn having been each of the above – except that instead of husbands I was wives – I know what I am talking about, and am well acquainted with the ups and downs, the daily ups and downs, the sometimes almost hourly ones in the thin-skinned, which seem inevitably to accompany human loves.

Dogs are free from these fluctuations. Once they love, they love steadily, unchangingly, until their last breath.

That is how I hope to be loved.”