There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.

If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.

Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.

They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good.

There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

Now that you've got me right down to it, the only thing I didn't like about The Barrets of Wimplole Street was the play.

ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.