“Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life.”
“If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature....”
“There were only three times in your life when it was proper to come through the front door, and you were carried every time.”
“In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents. ”
“Do you realize that one out of every four Americans is unbalanced? Think of your three closest friends. If they seem normal, then you are the one.”
“There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading and writing and corresponding. We think this life is nearly ideal.”