It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?
Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.