There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than "scenes", except those who gave rise to them.

I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable.

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