Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.