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

Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.

I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!