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

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

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

He knelt by the bed and bent over her, draining their last moment to its lees; and in the silence there passed between them the word which made all clear.

The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.

Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them to feel a summer breeze on their faces, or to see the lights among the boughs reduplicated in the arch of a starry sky. The strange solitude about them was no stranger than the sweetness of being alone in it together.

...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.