fishing teaches a stern morality; inculcates a remorseless honesty.

Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.