I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.

You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.