One must desire something to be alive.

As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.

the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.

By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

Home is the best place to be sick in.