Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

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

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record.