The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")

Women accept their destiny more readily than men.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving

Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which most frequently grew into deeds

Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.