True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

I'm not much interested in travelling scholarships for women - or in fact in scholarships, tout court! - they'd much better stay at home and mind the baby. Still less am I interested in scholarships for female Yids.

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.

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.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.