Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

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

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

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.