What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

Oh, yes, of course I like music, too. Very much. It's so pleasant of an evening, especially when made by your friends at home. I often say I like it better than cards. Though I must say I do like a good game of bridge.

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.

Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.