Glenway Wescott said this quote

People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.

~ Glenway Wescott

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

~ Glenway Wescott

The boy thought, How powerful a story is, and how by a kind of magic it compels the imagination; there was nothing in the world, it seemed to him, so mysteriously strong; and he began to wonder if he would ever have anything as beautiful to tell.

~ Glenway Wescott