I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.

It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.

In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.