Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

She was incurably dishonest.

I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.