In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words.

Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She might believe herself wholly in revolt against it; but what had charmed her in it would still charm her even though it were against her will.

Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.