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.

Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.

Everybody who does anything at all does too much.

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

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.

In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers.