This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

Don't think of what's past!" said she. "I am not going to think outside of now. Why should we! Who knows what tomorrow has in store?

To dance with a man is to concentrate a twelvemonth's regulation fire upon him in the fragment of an hour. To pass to courtship without acquaintance, to pass to marriage without courtship, is a skipping of terms reserved for those alone who tread this royal road.

The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.