Breed is stronger than pasture.

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.

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.

Correct English is the slang of prigs.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.