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.

The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.

I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.