My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

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.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all!

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

Some things are best mended by a break.