Everybody who does anything at all does too much.

One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace

It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

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

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.