If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.

In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

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

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

And I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, & consequently suggests more tugging, & pain, & diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.