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.

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins.

Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.

... there are spines to which the immobility of worship is not a strain.