I can understand Nero fiddling while Rome burned, if he really had no power to call up fire engines." "Are you an individualist ?" he asked.
"Not fundamentally," she replied, "but I am caught up in the throes of a great reaction.

I have been studying events, which it is quite true may change the destinies of the world, so intently that I have almost forgotten that, after all, the greatest thing in the world, my world, is the happiness or ill-content of Naida Karetsky.

It is really of more importance to me to-day that my quail should be cooked as I like it than that England has let go her last rope." "You are not an Englishwoman," he reminded her.
"That is of minor importance.

We are all so much immersed in great affairs just now that we forget it is the small ones that count.

I want my luncheon to be perfect, I want you to seem as nice to me as I have fancied you, and I want you to chase completely away the idea that you are cultivating my acquaintance for interested motives." "That I can assure you from the bottom of my heart is not the case," he replied.