Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons.