One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.

He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.