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.

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

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

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

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.

It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.