Customers must be delicately angled for at a safe distance - show yourself too much, and, like trout, they flashed away.

How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!

There is nothing more startling in human relations that the strong emotion of weak people.

City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

Is there any other slavery and chain like that of temperament?

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.