“It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.”

“I stared at him and then at Tom, who had made a parallel discovery less than an hour before — and it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.”

“That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.”

“You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.”

“It made no difference to me. Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.”

“Their point of resemblance to each other and their difference from so many American women, lay in the fact that they were all happy to exist in a man's world--they preserved their individuality through men and not by opposition to them. They would all three have made alternatively good courtesans or good wives not by the accident of birth but through the greater accident of finding their man or not finding him.”

“We all have souls of different ages”