Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack of innocence, unaware that it was all a selection of quality rather than quantity from the run of the world's bazaar; and that the simplicity of behavior also, the nursery-like peace and good will, the emphasis on the simpler virtues, was part of a desperate bargain with the gods and had been attained through struggles she could not have guessed at.

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.