Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.

Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.