It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
Things are always different from what they might be.
We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.