Blessed are the pure in heart for they have so many more things to talk about.

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

The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.

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.

Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.