Think what stupid things the people must have done with their money who say they're 'happier without'.

With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.

Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.

Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all!

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins.