Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.
James Branch CabellPeople must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.
James Branch CabellLove, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.
James Branch CabellI have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug; as well as that, among other requisites, the gallant person will always consider the world with a smile of toleration, and his own doings with a smile of honest amusement, and Heaven with a smile which is not distrustful โ being thoroughly persuaded that God is kindlier than the genteel would regard as rational.
James Branch Cabell