I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when...
I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
I could see that Isabel listened to him with growing exasperation. Larry had no notion that he was driving a dagger in her heart and with his every detached word twisting it in the wound. But when she...
His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless ...
He began to read at haphazard. He entered upon each system with a little thrill of excitement, expecting to find in each some guide by which he could rule his conduct; he felt himself like a traveller...
For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men...
Enjoy yourself while you have the chance, I say; we shall all be dead in a hundred years and what will anything matter then?
Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
Patsy had asked him if he had had adventures in Paris and he had truthfully answered no. It was a fact that he had done nothing; his father thought he had had a devil of a time and was afraid he had c...
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
– Търся нещо, без да знам какво точно. Зная обаче, че за мен е много важно да го намеря и че намеря ли го, ще се успокоя. Може би монахините го знаят; когато съм с тях, чувствам, че пазят тайна, в коя...
The inward life might be as manifold, as varied, as rich with experience, as the life of one who conquered realms and explored unknown lands.
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others...
You must know what life is. One can do no good by shutting one's eyes to everything that doesn't square with a shoddy, false ideal.
We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.