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.

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

There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.

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?

Imagination is the only true thing in the world!

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

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.