Everyone else is just cocktails.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the year when the icy January wind carries over the waste at once the dirge of departing winter, and the prophecy of coming spring.

I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.

You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' broke in anguish from his lips.

I was no pope - I could not boast infallibility.