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

There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

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

Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She took him into the kitchen and explained the almost holy traditions that governed this complicated cookery. Her excitement and seriousness as she beat and stirred were very pretty, Claude thought. She told off on her fingers the many ingredients, but he believed there were things she did not name: the fragrance of old friendships, the glow of early memories, belief in wonder-working rhymes and songs.

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.