Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.

The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions... I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again.

Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.

It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.