Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare.

It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.

People can be in general pretty well trusted, of course--with the clock of their freedom ticking as loud as it seems to do here--to keep an eye on the fleeting hour.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.