The rich get richer and the poor get - children.

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

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.

I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea; I don't catch the subtle things like 'silver-snarling trumpets.' I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never right anything but mediocre poetry.