She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write.

His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen.

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

It was easy enough to despise the world, but decidedly difficult to find any other habitable region.