Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

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.

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.