A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.

Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

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.

The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.