“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”

“Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.”

“No other success [in life] can compensate for failure in the home.”

“To believe in the supernatural is not simply to believe that after living a successful, material, and fairly virtuous life here one will continue to exist in the best-possible substitute for this world, or that after living a starved and stunted life here one will be compensated with all the good things one has gone without: it is to believe that the supernatural is the greatest reality here and now.”

“For romantic young people like he is, the world always looks best at a distance; and a prison where one's allowed to order one's own dinner is not at all bad.”

“Life was very sad if there were not - and unbearably so if one's experience with romantic love turned one into an incurable cynic.”