A rat’s private life, a rat’s thoughts and conversation, may be far more wholesome than a rabbit’s. Yet a thousand rabbits might play on the floor of my bedroom all night, and be hanged to them, while if a single rat so much as scratched beneath the flooring I would lose all sleep.
E.V. Lucas Quotes
Holidays are often over overrated disturbances of routine, costly and uncomfortable, and they usually need another holiday to correct their ravages.
One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
What kind of life a dog… acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.
