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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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