People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications.

In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time.

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

Staunch & faithful little lovers that they are, they give back a hundred fold every sign of love one ever gives them — & it mitigates the pang of losing them to know how very happy a little affection has made them .

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.

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.