The «Genius»

They were beautiful but so distant. He invested them with more beauty than they had; the beauty was in his own soul. But he did not know that.

marriage ought to be a happy bargain, and if it isn't you oughtn't to try to stay together just because you thought you could stay together once.

There was no peace in it, for there is neither peace nor happiness in deception.

He looked into the well of his being and there he saw nothing but shifty and uncertain currents.

he was inclined to see much more in those he admired than was really there

Absence is the dark room in which lovers develop negatives

steak and make biscuits and gravy in honor of his coming, he felt that he did not belong to this world any mor

Naturally such an attitude would make for the death of passion, as the satiation of passion would make for the development of such an attitude.

He must succeed. That's what the world was made for

ve got a wife and three children and when a man's got a family he can't afford to take chances.