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

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.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.

I don't call you handsome, sir, though I love you most dearly: far too dearly to flatter you. Don't flatter me.