I'm not much interested in travelling scholarships for women - or in fact in scholarships, tout court! - they'd much better stay at home and mind the baby. Still less am I interested in scholarships for female Yids.

[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally.

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.

But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer

I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.

What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

Everybody who does anything at all does too much.