Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit

Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She might believe herself wholly in revolt against it; but what had charmed her in it would still charm her even though it were against her will.

I'd almost say it's the worries that make married folks sacred to each other.

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

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