I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability

We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for.

... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.

I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.