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

Some things are best mended by a break.

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

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

He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.

What is one's personality, detached from that of the friends with whom fate happens to have linked one? I cannot think of myself apart from the influence of the two or three greatest friendships of my life, and any account of my own growth must be that of their stimulating and enlightening influence.

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.