Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

a great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain

In a good-natured way he had almost decided that Princeton was one part deadly Philistines and one part deadly grinds, and to find a person who could mention Keats without stammering, yet evidently washed his hands, was rather a treat.

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.