Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.

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

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.

The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.