It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

Real life seems to have no plots.

I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?

Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

Your calling should be your territory

Make your footsteps count

Is this my purpose?The clouds don't have a lot of answers.

I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.

My friend, why should you wish to shorten my life by taking from me my shadow? (To photographer Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy.)

Technically speaking, you can build anything out of sand; it doesn't mean you do it.

Democrats and Republicans alike support our military personnel.

The sole constitutional office of language being to express our ideas and sentiments, it becomes more and more perfect and useful, the more effectually it subserves this sole end of its creation.

The Spirit is neither good nor bad, it runs where the wild heart leads" "Wisdom begins in wonder.

Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.