“You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.”

“You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing. You lost life's secret.”

“He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is thereason that I don't believe anything he has told me.”

“What fire does not destroy, it hardens”

“The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.”

“It had brought melancholy across his passions. Its mere memory had marred many moments of joy. It had been like conscience to him. Yes, it had been conscience. He would destroy it.”

“With an evening coat and a white tie, as you told me once, anybody, even a stock-broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized. Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious academicians, I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me.”