Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.

Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.

Each time you happen to me all over again.

But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.