... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.

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.

The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.

the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.