Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Each time you happen to me all over again.

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience...

We are new creation in Jesus Christ.

Sometimes a people lose their right to remain silent when pressured to remain silent.

Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.

You can have, what wish for.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.

What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?

The sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: At one stride comes the dark; With far-heard whisper o'er the sea, Off shot the spectre-bark.

We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.

The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl, Advantaging their loan with interest Of ten times double gain of happiness.