The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.

The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.

Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night

I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

Happiness is the relief after extreme tension