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.

Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?

Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.

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.