Two Human Beings Anchored To One Another

It Is Not Events And The Things One Sees And Enjoys That Produce Happiness, But A State Of Mind Which Can Endow Events With Its Own Quality, And We Must Hope For The Duration Of This State Rather Than The Recurrence Of Pleasurable Events.

A Great Biography Should, Like The Close Of A Great Drama, Leave Behind It A Feeling Of Serenity. We Collect Into A Small Bunch The Flowers, The Few Flowers, Which Brought Sweetness Into A Life, And Present It As An Offering To An Accomplished Destiny. It Is The Dying Refrain Of A Completed Song, The Final Verse Of A Finished Poem.

Almost All Great Writers Have As Their Motif, More Or Less Disguised, The Passage From Childhood To Maturity, The Clash Between The Thrill Of Expectation And The Disillusioning Knowledge Of Truth. 'lost Illusion' Is The Undisclosed Title Of Every Novel.

If You Value A Man's Regard, Strive With Him. As To Liking, You Like Your Newspaper - And Despise It.

Old Age Diminishes Our Strength; It Takes Away Our Pleasures One After The Other; It Withers The Soul As Well As The Body; It Renders Adventure And Friendship Difficult; And Finally It Is Shadowed By Thoughts Of Death.