When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms of lofty elms, not shadows of a fading summer; but swinging shapes as of books upon a strap, of round and square boxes held under an arm, of hurrying little people heading towards the nearest school.

My war brought me many things; let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.

No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.

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

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

None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.