Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Happiness is a work of art. Handle with care.

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

Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them to feel a summer breeze on their faces, or to see the lights among the boughs reduplicated in the arch of a starry sky. The strange solitude about them was no stranger than the sweetness of being alone in it together.

Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats.

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

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