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

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

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

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children.

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.