I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-

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

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.

Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.