Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.

To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.

If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs. To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.

When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.