my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.

It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.

I've got 's much feelin' as the next one, but when folks drives in their spiggits and wants to draw a bucketful o' compassion every day right straight along, there does come times when it seems as if the bar'l was getting low.

What's everybody's business is nobody's business.

Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!

Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?

Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.