After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

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.

He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.

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