All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child--something of that sort--gives you the same warm nice feeling, I mean.

It may be true of all relationships, not only between fathers and sons, but between men and women. Nothing seems fixed. Everything is always changing. We seem to have very little control over our emotional life.

He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.

In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt.

Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.

Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.

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