It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.

Grandpa says we've got everything to make us happy but happiness.

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

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.

The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.