Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy.

In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.

Kisses honeyed by oblivion.

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.