“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

“You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.”

“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.”

“I've got one more record. - Have you heard "So Long, Letty"? I suppose you have.''Honestly, you don't understand - I haven't heard a thing.'Nor known, nor smelt, nor tasted he might have added; only hot cheeked girls in hot secret rooms. The young maidens he had known at New Haven in 1914 kissed men saying 'There!' hands at the man's chest to push him away. Now there was this scarcely saved waif of disaster bringing him the essence of a continent...”

“We ruined ourselves-I have never honestly thought that we ruined each other.”

“Jelly-bean" is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular- - I am idling, I have idled, I will idle”