A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

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.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone