Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.

The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.

Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.