No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.

She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.

Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in great architecture, great painting and great literature. Only in the atmosphere thus engendered floats that impalpable dust of ideas which is the real culture. A colony of ants or bees will never create a Parthenon.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

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

He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.