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.

When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

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

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.

Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.

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.

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?