Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say

We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not.

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.