It takes two to make an accident.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other.

When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.

I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.