A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.

The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms.