...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

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

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

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

But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.