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

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

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

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

There was no use in trying to emancipate a wife who had not the dimmest notion that she was not free.

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.

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