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.

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

To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,—this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty.

A lean sorrow is hardest to bear.

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

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.

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