marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.
He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
Tilling the fertile soil of man's vanity.
To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.