It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the very old-even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.