there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.

[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.

The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon. She had accepted this submergence as philosohpically as all her other trials, and now, in extreme old age, was rewarded by presenting to her mirror an almost unwrinkled expanse of firm pink and white flesh, in the centre of which the traces of a small face survived as if awaiting excavation.

You thought I was a lovelorn mistress; and I was only an expensive prostitute.

Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep