... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

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.

Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.