It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
The rich get richer and the poor get - children.
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.
People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.