The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.

Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them to feel a summer breeze on their faces, or to see the lights among the boughs reduplicated in the arch of a starry sky. The strange solitude about them was no stranger than the sweetness of being alone in it together.