The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.

Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.

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

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe." Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the manner in which the child had been taught to intimate that Mr. Miller had been removed to the sphere of celestial reward. But Randolph immediately added, "My father's in Schenectady.

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