Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.

taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out like drifting moths under the rich hazy light, and as the fantastic symphony wept and exulted and wavered and despaired, Ardita's last sense of reality dropped away, and she abandonded her imagination to the dreamy summer scents of tropial flowers and the infinite starry spaces overhead, feeling that if she opened her eyes it would be to find herself dancing with a ghost in a land created by her own fantasy.

Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made her choice, and Anthony thought again how naive was her every gesture; she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter.

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.

Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now.