Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion that you will like to hear from me. You see, I have asked no questions, which are the torture-screws of correspondence. Hence you have nothing to answer.

It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.