It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.

He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.

Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty.

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

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

The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind