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

The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.

Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite.

Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure.

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...

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.

No one should live beyond 30.