Everybody who does anything at all does too much.

whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.

He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless sentimental adventures were ending in premature disgust; and she had represented peace, stability, comradeship, and the steadying sense of an unescapable duty.

[I]t's safer to be fond of dangerous people.

There was once a little girl who was so very intelligent that her parents feared that she would die. But an aged aunt, who had crossed the Atlantic in a sailing-vessel, said, 'My dears, let her marry the first man she falls in love with, and she will make such a fool of herself that it will probably save her life.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.