What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.

Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha was always being left when she was not leaving others. Melanctha Herbert always loved too hard and much too often. She was always full with mystery and subtle movements and denials and vague distrusts and complicated disillusions. Then Melanctha would be sudden and impulsive and unbounded in some faith, and then she would suffer and be strong in her repression. Melanctha Herbert was always seeking rest and quiet and always she could only find new ways to be in trouble.

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.