A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.

The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

No," interrupted Marcia emphatically. "And you're a sweet boy. Come here and kiss me." Horace stopped quickly in front of her. "Why do you want me to kiss you?" he asked intently. "Do you just go round kissing people?" "Why, yes," admitted Marcia, unruffled. "'At's all life is. Just going around kissing people.

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.