Booth Tarkington

“So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.”

“When the song was ended, he struck the rail he leaned upon a sharp blow with his open hand. There swept over him a feeling that he had stood precisely where he stood now, on such a night, a...”

“But from their first word of him, from the message that he was found and was alive, none of the people of Carlow had really doubted it. They are simple country people, and they know that God...”

“All at once the anger ran out of John Harkless; he was a hard man for anger to tarry with. And in place of it a strong sense of home-coming began to take possession of him. He was going home...”

“Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.”

“Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.”

“He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.”