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

Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.

And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.

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

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.