nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

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

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

I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.

It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.