A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.

What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.

No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

A Bowen, in the first place, made Bowen's Court. Since then, with a rather alarming sureness, Bowen's Court has made all the succeeding Bowens.