An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out.

There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

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.