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.

A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.

"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.

This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.