... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

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.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.