The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

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.

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.

[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.