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.

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

Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

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

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.