One cares so little for the style in which one's praises are written.

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

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

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

Staunch & faithful little lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love one ever gives them — & it mitigates the pang of losing them to know how very happy a little affection has made them .

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

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.