Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

The suitable is the last thing we ever want.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.

the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.

It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.