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

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.

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.

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.