If you haven't had your life what have you had?
She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it all up and not know anything more — this idea was as sweet as the vision of a cool bath in a marble tank, in a darkened chamber, in a hot land.
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.
I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.
We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.