I have no technical psychological interest; it is drama, speech,and events that interest me.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.

She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search.

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

...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?