And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now

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

Archer reddened to the temples but dared not move or speak: it was as if her words had been some rare butterfly that the least motion might drive off on startled wings, but that might gather a flock if it were left undisturbed.

whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.