Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

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

“Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears,” he said. “Well, she opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say that she blinds people. What she does is just the contrary — she fastens their eyelids open, so that they're never again in the blessed darkness.”

Some things are best mended by a break.

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.