The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?

The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth.

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.

It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.