Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words.

The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.

Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in a great flame. But then you come; and you're so much more than I remembered, and what I want of you is so much more than an hour or two every now and then, with wastes of thirsty waiting between, that I can sit perfectly still beside you, like this, with that other vision in my mind, just quietly trusting it to come true.

I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.