His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be