An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer

To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.

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

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.

The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.