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

No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.

He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with which his imagination was painting wonders of her. He watched her from the corners of his eyes as ever he did when he walked with her-- she was a feast and a folly and he wished it had been his destiny to sit forever on a haystack and see life through her green eyes.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.