The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.