Everybody who does anything at all does too much.

Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

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

I'd almost say it's the worries that make married folks sacred to each other.

The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.