"[Wight] failed many of his classes on the first try: surgery, pathology, physiology, histology, even animal husbandry…"

"If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw."

"For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents. The words 'My book,' as in 'I'll put …"

"Years ago, farmers were uneducated and eccentric and said funny things, and we ourselves were comparatively uneducate…"

"There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, t…"

"Cats are connoisseurs of comfort."

"He straightened up. This was a tough one. He folded his arms across his chest as he stared into space and took the lo…"

"When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings."

"Darkness began to drink up the last cold light upon the mountainside."

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them."