I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.