A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone

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.

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.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.