One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.
The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?
Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.
Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Life is made up of compromises.
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.
I begin to see what marriage is for. It's to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can be saved from madness only by the things that come between them - children, duties, visits, bores, relations - the things that protect married people from each other.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.
Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.
It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable.
Every house is a mad-house at some time or another.
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.
She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.
I'm afraid I'm an incorrigible life-lover, life-wonderer, and adventurer.
The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.
She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.
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