She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

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

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

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.