He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer noon, when the heat seems to have silenced the very birds and insects, and, lying sunk in the tasselled meadow grasses, one looks up through a level roofing of maple-leaves at the vast, shadowless, and unsuggestive blue.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.