...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.

He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.