Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .

Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

Without form, the sensitiveness vanishes.