Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.

Some things are best mended by a break.

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

...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.