It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

We all must try to be good.

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.

I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.

Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains.

The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other’s names.