She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed.

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other.