The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.

Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.

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.

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

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.