Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.

whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.