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.

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

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

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them to feel a summer breeze on their faces, or to see the lights among the boughs reduplicated in the arch of a starry sky. The strange solitude about them was no stranger than the sweetness of being alone in it together.