America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

No one is more triumphant than the man who chooses a worthy subject and masters all its facts.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

English literature is a flying fish.

Was Mrs. Wilcox one of the unsatisfactory people- there are many of them- who dangle intimacy and then withdraw it? They evoke our interests and affections, and keep the life of the spirit dawdling around them. Then they withdraw. When physical passion is involved, there is a definite name for such behaviour- flirting- and if carried far enough, it is punishable by law. But no law- not public opinion, even- punishes those who coquette with friendship, though the dull ache that they inflict, the sense of misdirected effort and exhaustion, may be as intolerable. Was she one of these?