A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn.

Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

Life cracked like ice!

The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.

For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!