Men become old, but they never become good.
Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.
On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.
The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.