Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.

Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.

At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.

I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.