I know about her, although she has never crossed my path," he said softly. "I know about her struggles and her defeats. It is because of her defeats that she is to me the lovely one. Out of her defeats she has been born a new quality in woman. I have a name for it. I call it Tandy. I made up the name when I was a true dreamer and before my body became vile. It is the quality of being strong to be loved. It is something men need from women and that they do not get.

I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living.

The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.