Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

The sea was indistinguishable from the sky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it.

Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.

I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.

The intellect, divine as it is, and all worshipful, has a habit of lodging in the most seedy of carcasses, and often, alas, acts the cannibal among the other faculties so that often, where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.