He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?

People like you to be something, preferably what they are.

The American girl makes a servant of her husband and then finds him contemptible for being a servant

Sometimes when she was alone, and she knew she was alone, she permitted her mind to play in a garden, and she smiled.

You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.

A good writer always works at the impossible.

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.