Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.