Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.

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.

he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.

Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night