Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.
youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.