For hours she had lain in a kind of gentle torpor, not unlike that sweet lassitude which masters one in the hush of a midsummer noon, when the heat seems to have silenced the very birds and insects, and, lying sunk in the tasselled meadow grasses, one looks up through a level roofing of maple-leaves at the vast, shadowless, and unsuggestive blue.

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

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.

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

I'd almost say it's the worries that make married folks sacred to each other.

And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.