Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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.
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.
There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.
[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.