Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.

One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.

If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?