One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner forever shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.

i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.