The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.

There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life.

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be