When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with which his imagination was painting wonders of her. He watched her from the corners of his eyes as ever he did when he walked with her-- she was a feast and a folly and he wished it had been his destiny to sit forever on a haystack and see life through her green eyes.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate.

Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

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

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

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