It is all right you're saying you do not need other people, but there are a lot of people who need you.

It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.

From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy.

It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much respect

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.