But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment.

Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers

I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you