Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

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

My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons.

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.