Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?

But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer

Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.

Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.