The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.

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.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy.

Friends you have, people you love, die and are born again.

Interest in the lives of others, the high evaluation of these lives, what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself, the value he attributes to his own being?.

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

I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living.