In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of...

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 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.

There are plenty of people dragging themselves miserably through the world, because they are clogged and fettered with work for which they have no fitness… I can’t help believing that nothing is better than to...

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.