Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.

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

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.

Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique.

In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.