Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

I not only want to be loved, I want to be told that I'm loved.

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon.

I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.