In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante. Votes: 6
Don't you ever mind, she asked suddenly, not being rich enough to buy all the books you want? Votes: 1
A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys. Votes: 0
In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires. Votes: 0
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime. Votes: 0
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. Votes: 0
Cherished Votes: 0
Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down Votes: 0
An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions. Votes: 0
Nothing is more perplexing to a man than the mental process of a woman who reasons her emotions. Votes: 0
Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want? Votes: 0
It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region. Votes: 0
Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Votes: 0
I wonder why rich people always grow fat I suppose it's because there's nothing to worry them. Votes: 0
Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events. Votes: 0
[B]ut he had lived in a world in which, as he said, no one who loved ideas need hunger mentally. Votes: 0
Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation. Votes: 0
I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings. Votes: 0
...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not. Votes: 0
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods Votes: 0
People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications. Votes: 0
Life is made up of compromises. Votes: 0
But marriage is one long sacrifice.... Chapter 21, Medora Manson speaking to Newland Archer Votes: 0
How I hate everything! Votes: 0