I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.

I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.

...she had regained what I thought she had lost forever, the magical sadness which had drawn me to her, the thwarted look that had seemed to say, "Surely I was made for some other purpose than this?

There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.