The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

Usage is the only test. I prefer a phrase that is easy and unaffected to a phrase that is grammatical.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he even enjoyed it, it remained utterly remote. I think it had lost sense for him. In his heart was the reflection of a lovely dream that he could never quite recall.