Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.

There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.