Girls have a way of knowing or feeling what you feel, but they usually like to hear it also.

Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.

But Doc had one mental habit he could not get over. When anyone asked a question, Doc thought he wanted to know the answer.

A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.

When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.