For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.

Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?

It is possible, even probable, to be told a truth about a place, to accept it, to know it and at the same time not to know anything about it.

A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.