What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

pretense is the oil that lubricates society.

I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!

I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter.

I have never learned to say 'gas' for gasoline. It seems to me as absurd as if I were to say 'but' for butter.

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.