The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.

The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do notintrude upon each other. The Navajos are not much in the habit of giving or of asking help. Their language is not a communicative one, and they never attempt an interchange of personality in speech. Over their forests there is the same inexorable reserve. Each tree has its exalted power to bear.

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.