The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.
They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.
After Henry's treatment of her she wasn't sure that men could honestly love women but she wanted to believe it. She wanted to be told pretty things and for the frightening clip of her heart to slow to something more reasonable.
Her heart the damned thing had begun to race and she only hoped that the rapid inflation and deflation of her chest wasn't visible beneath her fitted bodice.
Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.
It is well known that a man, when wooing a lady to be his wife, must first win over the females she most confides in—her friends, of course, and her sister, if she has one.
In New York there is always something to look at, but it is all infinitely more interesting through a window in the backseat of a limousine.
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it.
Who is't that to woman's beauty would submit, And yet refuse the fetters of their wit?
The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact.