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

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She might believe herself wholly in revolt against it; but what had charmed her in it would still charm her even though it were against her will.

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

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

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.

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