There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.

I flutter all ways, and fly in none.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.

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