Each time you happen to me all over again.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.