There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory.

Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.