Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

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

To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.

With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.

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