The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

I have lived too long in foreign parts

She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart and the agitations of the world. For this reason, she was fond of seeing great crowds, and large stretches of country, of reading about revolutions and wars, of looking at historical pictures--a class of efforts to which she had often gone so far as to forgive much bad painting for the sake of the subject.

Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.

It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.