The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.

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

Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.

She would not have put herself out so much to say so little.

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.