[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

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.

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.

... caprice is as ruinous as routine.

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.