Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow.

There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses