And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.

The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.

[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.