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

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.