He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.

Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in great architecture, great painting and great literature. Only in the atmosphere thus engendered floats that impalpable dust of ideas which is the real culture. A colony of ants or bees will never create a Parthenon.

It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.

You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute.