Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions.

She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.

The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.

Her failure was a useful preliminary to success.