If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.

The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.