You confuse what's important with what's impressive.

The emotions may be endless. The more we express them, the more we may have to express.

An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

Truth is a flower in whose neighbourhood others must wither.