It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

I wanted so terribly to be good to him.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.

How can a young man like to wear a beard?

And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.

Oh, wise young judge.