Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.

It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.