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.
There’s more women likes to be loved than there is of those that loves.
The bright flower was like a face. Somehow, the beauty and life of it were surprising in the plain room, like a gay little child who might suddenly appear in a doorway.
I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.
A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled paper.
It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.
I couldn’t help thinkin’ if she was as far out o’ town as she was out o’ tune, she wouldn’t get back in a day.
Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.
The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
Yes’m old friends is always best ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.
The road was new to me as roads always are going back.
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.
T’ain’t worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
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.
Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.