People marry through a variety of other reasons, and with varying results: but to marry for love is to invite inevitable tragedy.

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

Life is very marvelous... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.

There is no gift more great than love.

I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.