A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.

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

In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

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 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.

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