I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

Consequences are unpitying.

Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.

I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

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

Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy.