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?

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?

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

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.

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.

Imagination is the only true thing in the world!

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.