You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-

"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older—intelligence and good manners.