Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that furnace he would fight his way out into the serenity of middle age,-all the richer and more human for having known this great passion.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?

Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love.

I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

Don’t be afraid,” she said, coldly, “ as far as love may go she may be worthy of you. It must have taken a good deal to overcome her pride. Don’t be afraid, John.

I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.