The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.