Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own.

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

To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,—this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty.

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

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.

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

we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next.