My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.

There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.

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

The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.