There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

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

Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.

It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart

Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.