But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

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.

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.