Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.

Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.

Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.

I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.

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

convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.