... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.

... 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.

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

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.