They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

...their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.