I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.

I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.

It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.

It's the quality of harmony, sir. The quality of being in harmony with you own soul. God having given you your own soul you are then in harmony with Heaven.

You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.

Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.