Satisfaction, even after one has dined well, is not so interesting and eager a feeling as hunger.

Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

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 these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.

It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.

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.