In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.
There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.
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.
She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.
there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.
She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.