Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

Yes, you have been away a very long time.' 'Oh, centuries and centuries; so long,' she said, 'that I'm sure I'm dead and buried and this dear old place is heaven.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.

When a man says he doesn't understand a woman it's because he won't take the trouble.

They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.