Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.

It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall.

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.

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.