But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot settle down to simple watching; they must chew gum, they must dig the peel off their oranges, they must shift from foot to foot, from buttock to buttock.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.