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.

There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.

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?

It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.

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.

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.