We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.

Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.

But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.