The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
T'ain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.
There's more women likes to be loved than there is of those that loves.
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
The road was new to me as roads always are going back.
The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.
It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.
A harbor even if it is a little harbor is a good thing.... It takes something from the world and has something to give in return.