"Of the two, he would prefer the latter."
"But neither would be his ideal."
"I am not altogether certain of that; but I do know he holds in strong dislike a woman who simply exists to follow the fashions, no matter how attractive she may be."
"I am ashamed to say I like getting new things, especially when they are becoming," I said, a little shamefacedly.
"I am sure you would get tired of a perpetual round of new hats and frocks, and trying them on, I am not apt to be mistaken in a person."
"But it is vastly easier to think of harmonious colors and combinations of dry goods, than it is to puzzle over those knotty subjects we listen to here in the evening, or to translate Chopin or Wagner, or the other great masters."
"But once mastering any of these, the pleasure arising therefrom gives satisfaction to a noble cast of mind that a whole gallery of Worth's choicest costumes could not produce."
"Solomon said: Much study is a weariness of the flesh."
"Solomon was an intellectual dyspeptic. But granting that it is a weariness, it is something that pays well for the weariness."
"If all the world were to come to Mr. Winthrop's way of thinking, it would be a sad thing for the dressmakers."