The supreme vice is shallowness.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.