Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.

I'm restless. My whole generation is restless. I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer. Even if I had no talents I'd not be content to work ten years, condemned either to celibacy or a furtive indulgence, to give some man's son an automobile.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style.... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level.