The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.

One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

She wouldn't let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up in a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow.