How can a young man like to wear a beard?

I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.

My God - it's a green child!" said the American. "What is this place - the House of Usher?

He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.

There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.