Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember

All things come to him who mates.