Some things are best mended by a break.

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

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 was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were ignorant of tradition and unimpressed by distinctions of rank; but it was soon clear that their young hostesses must be treated with the same respect, if not with the same ceremony as English girls of good family.

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.