There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition.

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever.