"Someday beneath some hard Capricious star — Spreading its light a little Over far, We'll know you for the woman That …"

"What turn of card, what trick of game Undiced? And you we valued still a little More than Christ."

"Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?"

"Ah God! she settles down we say; It means her powers slip away It means she draws back day by day From good or bad."

"The Seal, she lounges like a bride, Much too docile, there's no doubt; Madame Récamier, on side, (if such she has), a…"

"We are adhering to life now with our last muscle — the heart."

"We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn’t the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes wit…"

"New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American."

"After all, it is not where one washes one’s neck that counts but where one moistens one’s throat."

"There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole."