After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.

you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man takes the big breeches an' the little man takes the small ones, an' it's jest the same with religion. It may be cut after one pattern, but it's might apt to get its shape from the wearer inside. Why, thar ain't any text so peaceable that it ain't drawn blood from somebody.