“The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy ... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?”

“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.”

“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”

“The charm turned on them a face that was cold in its beauty, that was full of a poetry never to be theirs, that spoke, with an ironic smile, of a possible but forbidden life. It all rolled a...”