He dispensed starlight to casual moths.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.