Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.

Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?

I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.

It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can be found (with a great originality of its own).