Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.

To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that. Then she wondered if it were vain and stupid to think so well of herself. When had it even been a guarantee to be valuable? Wasn't all history full of the destruction of precious things? Wasn't it much more probable that if one were fine one would suffer?

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

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

A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.