Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.

A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone else.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.