There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.

Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...

...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?

The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

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

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.