My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.