Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.

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

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

Almost everybody in the neighborhood had troubles, frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had complications. To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit

Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She might believe herself wholly in revolt against it; but what had charmed her in it would still charm her even though it were against her will.

I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable.