Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.

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

Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.

The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.

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

Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.