Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion.

Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

I'm a cynical idealist.

Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I.

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