Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.
But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
The share of the sympathetic publisher in the author's success - the true success so different from the ephemeral - is apt to be overlooked in these blatant days, so it is just as well that some of us should keep it in mind.
Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.