I don't believe in God, but I do believe in His saints.

In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time.

...every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.