I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

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

In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time.

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them.

He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.

there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.