Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

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.

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?