Being proposed to all is very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn’t at all a happy thing when you have to see a poor fellow, whom you know loves you honestly, going away and looking all broken-hearted, and to know that, no matter what he may say at the moment, you are passing quite out if his life

I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.