No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.