Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write.

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.