No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.
I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.
Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.