"[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 …"

"I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It …"

"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…"

"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."