If you don't love another living soul, then you'll never be disappointed.

Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.

No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day.

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

Let your performance do the thinking.

...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.