The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Plush velvet conjures up kings and opulence.
The scruffier your beard, the sharper you need to dress.
The boughs that bear most hang lowest.
In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.
In my darker moments, I feel like the Queen of England, bound and gagged by reverence. Tin-crowned and irrelevant.
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
You may depend upon it that they are as good hearts to serve men in palaces as in cottages.
The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult.
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.