No decent career was ever founded on a public.

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it.

I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious.