It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

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

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

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

Dignity is an anachronism.

Preserve, within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reverie.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.