She rose and followed her bust from the room.

Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.

Infatuation is one of those slightly comic illnesses which are at once so undignified and so painful that a nice-minded world does its best to ignore their existence altogether, referring to them only under provocation and then with apology, but, like its more material brother, this boil on the neck of the spirit can hardly be forgotten either by the sufferer or anyone else in his vicinity. The malady is ludicrous, sad, excruciating and, above all, instantly diagnosable.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

If one cannot command attention by one's admirable qualities one can at least be a nuisance

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it