To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life.

Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The real objection to domesticity is that it is too exciting.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

If I do not do sensible things about investments I shall spend my old age in a workhouse, where nobody will understand my jokes.

The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.

The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.