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

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

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

He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.