Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires

I want to do everything in the world with you.