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.

A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.

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.

Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.

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.

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.