It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.

It is strange,' pursued he, 'that while I love Rosomond Oliver so wildly-with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which is exquisitely beautiful, graceful, and fascinating--I experience at the same time a calm, unwarped consciousness, that she would not make me a good wife; that she is not the partner suited to me; that I should discover this within a year after marriage; and that to twelve months' rapture would succeed a lifetime of regret. This I know.

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft, silken skein round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced - conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph _I_ can win.

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.