Only the impossible lasts forever.

One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man's smile would be consternation on another's mouth.

Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.

Madness to us means reversion; to such people as Una and Lena it meant progression. Now their uncle had entered into a land beyond them, the land of fancy. For fifty years he had been as they were, silent, hard-working, unimaginative. Then all of a sudden, like a scholar passing his degree, he had gone up into another form.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.