Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

We haven’t met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. "Five years next November." The automatic quality set us all back at least another minute.

No one should live beyond 30.

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.