It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.

Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came to her the grave surprise of motherhood.

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

The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

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

She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.