People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.

I mean that everything this afternoon has been too beautiful, and that perhaps everything together will never be so right again. I'm very glad therefore you've been a part of it.

I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.