What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?

To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.

Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.

Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.