Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each new fashion in thought and theory as well as in dress - or undress.

Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools - but who’s to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and what’s more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes - and shoes - which of us wants to dance with her?

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.