There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.

There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.

the mysterious moment of death proves to be a moment of waking. How one longs to take it for one's self!

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.

Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the long drive home again in time for supper. It was a lovely brook and I caught seven good trout and one small one - which eight trout-persons you should have for your breakfast if only you were near enough. It was not alone the fishing, but the delightful loneliness and being out of doors.

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?

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