An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?

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

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

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.