People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.

For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning.