Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

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.

It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.

To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want.

If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London; for life in the country is the only state which has always completely satisfied me, and I had never been allowed to gratify it, even for a few weeks at a time. Now I was to know the joys of six or seven months a year among fields and woods of my own, and the childish ecstasy of that first spring outing at Mamaroneck swept away all restlessness in the deep joy of communion with the earth.

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.