I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.

Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.

Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!

Never confuse activity with action.

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